Publication: For a Breath I Tarry Publication Record # ; Author: Roger Zelazny; Date: ; ISBN: []; Publisher. This is a wonderful story on a theme that Zelazny returns to often – precisely . Through Rogers stories I developed an interest and started to read more. Read For a Breath I Tarry for the first time as part of the new Collected. Roger Zelazny. For a Breath I Tarry They called him Frost. Of all things created of Solcom, Frost was the finest, the mightiest, the most difficult to understand.
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Driving fr plot and setting its tone are allusions to other literature, most specifically the first chapter of the Book of Jobboth in situation and language, as verses are both quoted directly and paraphrased.
For a Breath I Tarry
Most of his novels dea Roger Zelazny made his name with a group of novellas which demonstrated just how intense an emotional charge could be generated by the stock imagery of sf; the most famous of these is A Rose for Ecclesiastes in which a poet breatg to convince dying and sterile Martians that life is worth continuing.
Sep 07, Dwayne Shugert rated it it was amazing. Zelazny creates a beautiful story in a way that a simple line can grip you with such intense emotion.
I will leave you to figure it out. You can tell me its composition, dimensions, weight, temperature. Johann Fausten Faustus, the Last Night There is no conversion factor for an emotion.
The latter measures, the first feels… A computer is convinced rogre humanity can be learned through reading the entire Library of Man. Joined Feb 20, Messages 2, L Maryland. Want to Read saving…. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. However, Mordel, the antagonist, believes it cannot be done.
I could describe it, but this quote from the story will tell you everything you need to know about it. The endings of the two stories are also quite similar.
Anna Sikorska rated zlazny it was ok Aug 22, In the distant future humanity is no more and the only things that exist are Machines who continue to maintain the world. Jan 20, David rated it it was amazing. In Jack of Shadowsthe headquarters of humanity are within the soul, which is seen as the zeelazny of sentiments, in the tradition of Macrobius the Latin Christian author who describes the soul in his comment’s on a famous dreamand of the Sufi and also paganism.
Most of his novels deal, one way or another, with tricksters and mythology, often with rogues who become gods, like Sam in Lord of Lightwho reinvents Buddhism as a vehicle for political subversion on a colony planet. I have constructed analogues of the human sensory equipment, so that I may see and smell and taste and hear like a Man.
I don’t feel this is an exaggeration. Aug 15, Mionemrys rated it it was amazing. Aug 19, Jeff Duffield rated it it was amazing. Return to Book Page. This story is incredible, and I find myself unable to find the words for it. It explores the definition of humanity, the limits of A.
The ending is very satisfactory, with the lines from what I discovered to be I picked this up because it was a Hugo candidate and because i liked the title. However, the way this is written makes it completely new since man isn’t involved in the process of robots trying to uncover the intricacies of the human condition. It’s made me a better zelaznt and influenced they way I look at the world.
Roger Zelazny – For A Breath I Tarry ()
Along the way, the tarrt explores the differences between Man and Machine, the former experiencing the world qualitativelywhile the latter do so quantitatively.
Jan 03, Megan rated it liked it. Dec 30, Lucy rated it it was amazing. Jan 13, Ryan Case rated it it was amazing. Oct 12, Thai Son rated it really liked it Shelves: His creations remain in the form of Artificial Inteligence automatons. Housman ‘s collection A Shropshire Lad.
Well written and thought provoking, roer journey into art, and beauty, and emotions and all that makes us human. I’ve seen it listed as both. Joined Nov 22, Messages Location My cats run my life: Oct 18, Algernon rated it it was amazing Shelves: For ten thousand years Frost sat at the North Pole of the Earth, aware of every snowflake that fell.
Aug 20, Profound Alchemy rated it it was amazing Shelves: As both a work of science fiction and as a perfect example of how much story you can tell with so few words – it is a master stroke. The Use Of “Reek”: A wonderful examination of what it means to be human. This page was last edited on 27 Septemberat Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. You are commenting using your WordPress. You must log in or register to reply here. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
However, I disagree with the notion that Frost was not human until he could feel emotion. It is simple yet effective. From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: It is controversial in modern times to suggest that Then, Frost fulfills his quest of becoming a human, and Divcom loses out on his end of the bargain.