Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 31, 2014 at 13:19:19 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Childish behaviour: entering the books posted by Roger Wardale on October 31, 2014 at 00:40:42:
See my post, July 20th
Yes, but I still think that Pin Mill works. Not exactly as AR knew it, but you can see the buildings that would have been the basis for his setting. Not identical, but with a bit of imagination it comes alive.
I do think that imagination is an important part of it. After all, AR would also have his impressions of the places overlaid by the rest of the '30s. In the back of his mind would have been the sure knowledge of a coming war, and the knowledge too of the havoc that had just been wrought in people's lives by the great recession- and was still going on. Only ended, finally, by that war.
Of course, none of that was reflected in the books- it couldn't be. But if thinking about AR's view of the places, it must have been part of his awareness.