Re: Coot Club dedication


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 26, 2012 at 00:59:45 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Coot Club dedication posted by Mike Dennis on February 26, 2012 at 00:24:27:

Do you assume/know that there was a 'real' Titmouse?

I always assumed that Titmouse was generic- effectively another Mavis clone. AR didn't need any kind of model for her.

There were, it seems to me, many reasons for the 'real life' models he used; technically, it short circuited the process of invention and meant that he could write a consistent character because he had an image already in mind- a farm, a person, much simpler to know already what he was writing about, rather than having to start inventing from scratch whenever they cropped up in the story. So he wouldn't need a 'model' for Titmouse because he knew what she was like already.

Then there were the personal reasons; affection, a return to an earlier period of his life, making the whole process of writing warmer, more enjoyable.

He didn't have to have real life models- I suspect the Ds were more totally a product of imagination, although for instance there were elements of personal memory, as when they earn their place in the North Polar expedition because they are so much better at skating than any of the others; I believe that this is something that had happened to AR himself, at school.

But I agree that it would be pleasant to know if he had a model for Tom... Although I never, personally, felt that there was much depth to that character, compared to, say, Dorothea or Titty.


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