What you said. So very totally. I think maybe that might be why so many snobby critics insist that all fantasy sucks, actually, because of course it's impossible to write about something that one doesn't have 100% direct experience of. *rolleyes* Have they never heard of imagination? I may not be a man, but I know how to have a bloody conversation with one, for goodness' sake.
Although I am a little confused by Hell, until I'd read Kim, I thought Rudyard Kipling had to be a Gloucestor man, born and bred on the big blue water. Because afaik (and if I weren't slightly tipsy right now I could be, y'know, definite) Gloucester and Gloucestershire are totally landlocked. ?? What am I missing?
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Date: 28 Jul 2005 03:24 am (UTC)Although I am a little confused by Hell, until I'd read Kim, I thought Rudyard Kipling had to be a Gloucestor man, born and bred on the big blue water. Because afaik (and if I weren't slightly tipsy right now I could be, y'know, definite) Gloucester and Gloucestershire are totally landlocked. ?? What am I missing?