I always seem to miss the most interesting things on my flist. You're supposed to go, "Hey, stupid, over here!" whenever you do something like this.
This sort of first-person narrative of cultural history is ultimately twice as useful as any research I could do myself. Given my taste for the darker under-side of things, for conflict, this sort of background is fascinating. More interesting than the pastoral, certainly. I think it makes everything so much richer and provides so much context. Of course, mostly, it makes me want to visit where you grew up, where Fraser grew up, to see these places, to write. (And I'm sure I would not stand out at all.)
Anyway, I'd love it if you'd keep writing these pieces. I think you don't always get that this is a foreign country, more remote than France in all but language and sometimes there as well, I'd imagine.
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Date: 2008-03-26 02:10 pm (UTC)This sort of first-person narrative of cultural history is ultimately twice as useful as any research I could do myself. Given my taste for the darker under-side of things, for conflict, this sort of background is fascinating. More interesting than the pastoral, certainly. I think it makes everything so much richer and provides so much context. Of course, mostly, it makes me want to visit where you grew up, where Fraser grew up, to see these places, to write. (And I'm sure I would not stand out at all.)
Anyway, I'd love it if you'd keep writing these pieces. I think you don't always get that this is a foreign country, more remote than France in all but language and sometimes there as well, I'd imagine.