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chiropteracupola · 10 months

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actually the experience of when you are reading and it incongruously feels like home has FOR ONCE BEEN JUSTIFIED as I have just found out that the author of this particular book spent at least thirty-eight years living approximately six miles from Right Here. and. well. one thing about right here is that the oaks and the eucalyptus and the dust and the gold of it all is going to creep into your writing no matter what actually. I don't make the rules that's just how it is.

#news from the cupola #this falls more into The Ongoing Californiaposting so it goes on this blog actually. rather than the book response blog.#like! it has been a weird thing I have had about this book for years now that the landscapes feel Right to me! which is rare in a fantasy #well this one is not Precisely fantasy but you get the idea of what I mean I think #I had thought it was because I read it for the very first time whilst driving out to my favorite disused mineshaft but no it's In The Book #it's hard to make happen but it happens. sometimes you're out there and the hills hold you differently for a little while.#it's always so interesting to be aware that you know places that the person writing the book also knew and Wonder about that #on a related note I must continue the project where I slap hornblower against san francisco until he sticks to it. there is logic I swear.

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