The first time I read a book through, I seem to do it for the story.
The second time I read a book, I pay more attention to the words.
I missed or didn't give notice to the Tolkien references the first time
through the Jijo novels.
[Note: There are 51 copies of The Lord of the Rings for sale by Tolkein via
addall.com]
Now I'm rereading Glory Season.
Few authors rarely want to hear that old question, "Where do you get your
ideas?"
Has there been a long past Brin-L discussion on the origination and
development of the idea behind Glory Season?
I accuse our good Dr. Brin of getting the first gleamings of the idea as a
reaction or challenge to a bad review of Gilbert & Sullivan.
I know; I've read that review somewhere myself.
If you put The Grand Duke and Utopia Unlimited into a separate category, then
Princess Ida becomes the least popular G&S play for staging nowadays. It is
in three acts, and it has a now somewhat dated theme of the education and
separate society of women.
They play resolves it's main point of conflict in this text:
But pray reflect-
If you enlist all women in your cause,
And make them all abjure tyrannic Man,
The obvious question then arises, “How
Is this Posterity to be provided?”
Princess. I never thought of that!
Ah, but I think our good Dr. Brin did just that.
The Peripatetic?
I don't think I have ever heard this word being used unless it was in plural
form and followed by "of long haired esthetics."
Renna exits the ship and is met by Iolanthe.
I expected those cavalry troops in glittering cuirasses and helmets to be
dressed in red and yellow, which of course are primary colors. I would like
to believe that Dr. Brin thought of adding this to their description, then
dropped it as being just a bit too obvious.
And for every Gilbert & Sullivan reference found, there is probably another
one there that I've missed.
I reject Glory Season's Afterword notion that the story idea began with a
contemplation of Lizards. That's just our good Dr. Brin's conscious mind
working.
The Id wanted to tell W. S. Gilbert, "Oh yeah? Well...."
--- Any thoughts?
I don't expect Dr. Brin to give an answer soon, if he does so at all. It's
only us unmarried old fogies that have nothing special to do on Christmas Eve
and Christmas Day.
In fact I expect that if his household celebrates Christmas, about five hours
from now our good Dr. Brin is going to be busy moving the couch to get at
that one bolt that slipped out of his hand and bounced off of his knee.
Or did he buy the bike already assembled?
William Taylor
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Tucson did have a White Christmas
--about 15 years ago.
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