Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 23, 2008 at 15:56:15 from 80.176.146.133 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: This isn't about 'dinner' posted by Jock on February 23, 2008 at 13:44:31:
But he also shared a great deal of himself in his stories - his
interests, his values, his delight in many common things that would be of little significance to others.
That is one of the things that makes it such a pleasure to read not just AR but any high quality author. You come to feel them, and hence the world they describe. It's one of the reasons that one of my favourite books in the series is PM; there are longish apparently 'dead' passages during which the Ds, for instance, wait for the rain to clear. Or there's another favourite sequence of mine from WDMTGTS when in 'Lost! Two days and a boat' Jim Brading comes to in hospital and frantically tries to discover what has happened. There are many other examples throughout the series. In all these passages AR is creating a place and a moment in time, almost for their own sake. As a small child I thought them a bit boring and sped on to the next bit of Real Story, but in time I fould them quite bewitching.
Incidental pleasures. Not many authors can produce those.