Patrice Louinet wrote:
> That's an interesting point. The choice of
> "African" examples is particularly striking in
> views of certain recent discoveries I made
> concerning "Vale of Lost Women", which was
> absolutely not inspired by any African locale,
> episode or whatnot, but by an American one.. The
> phrase "filtered through preconceived notions"
> is particularly apt. I had been working on that
> story for quite some time to establish its
> writing date; I had reread ten or fifteen times
> in the past four or five weeks, but never would
> I have imagined that the "meat" of the story
> could have been anything but pseudo-African
> until I almost mistakenly stumbled on its
> probable genesis. (Sorry, no divulging yet.)
But there is only one American example that fits.
Sorry, this must remain a secret for now.
> Just a somewhat irrelevant note here; if I am
> correct, the greenish buildings/stones only
> appear in REH circa Aug 1932. That's not
> repetition to me, that's an unconscious
> obesssion, for whatever reason.
Obsession, possibly, or possibly obviously.
Unconscious is completely supposition.
Larry Richter
