09-02-2011, 12:36 PM
Ah I see. To me the blindness was purely literal. The dead men couldn't see the beauty of the northern lights. I didn't mean it as a comment on how they died. I see what you mean about snow. I thought of it as a seasonal word but yeah, the point of seasons is that they change
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

