I'm glad you mentioned the different enthusiasms. The history of Ordinary Things and Recent People is something that I am now able to appreciate as an adult, but if I'm honest, Small Bunn found all of that about as killingly boring as it is possible to imagine.
I spent most of my school years thinking WHY DOES HISTORY NEVER COVER THE COOL STUFF OUT OF ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF??? and then when I got to Oxford and the FIRST TERM was basically 'Cool stuff out of Rosemary Sutcliff, and also, all your school teachers were probably way too certain about EVERYTHING? That was awesome. AWESOME.
Give me a gentleman whittling a tiny delicate blade from a piece of flint and using it to slay a deer, or ladies feeding their families by gathering fruits and nuts, or a lord with his magnificent pattern-welded sword and hall decked with storied tapestries - that would have me glued. GLUED. But the Life of Joe Bloggs, Tragic Victim of Mining Disaster and those fine ladies, the junior Blogses, tragically confined to a workhouse? No.
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Date: 2014-10-09 02:12 pm (UTC)I spent most of my school years thinking WHY DOES HISTORY NEVER COVER THE COOL STUFF OUT OF ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF??? and then when I got to Oxford and the FIRST TERM was basically 'Cool stuff out of Rosemary Sutcliff, and also, all your school teachers were probably way too certain about EVERYTHING? That was awesome. AWESOME.
Give me a gentleman whittling a tiny delicate blade from a piece of flint and using it to slay a deer, or ladies feeding their families by gathering fruits and nuts, or a lord with his magnificent pattern-welded sword and hall decked with storied tapestries - that would have me glued. GLUED. But the Life of Joe Bloggs, Tragic Victim of Mining Disaster and those fine ladies, the junior Blogses, tragically confined to a workhouse? No.