James Ferron Anderson
Reading something, seeing something, hearing something, and thinking that’s interesting: I want to know more about that. Then being more hooked, for some reason I might not, probably won’t, understand, by this thing and not by hundreds of others. Being hooked by two things more often, and wanting to put them together and make a bigger, more striking, thing.
For example in The River and The Sea I was enthralled by the ideas of middle-class English people (as they exclusively were) buying a dream sight unseen and moving six thousand miles to begin a life there, trying to grow fruit in a stony desert, and their attitudes of superiority to all other races, nationalities and classes. This tied in with my interest at that time in the very similar attitudes of Franklyn and others in the Arctic and Robert Falcon Scott in the Antarctic. Men dying and starving in the cold while apple orchards died of heat and drought, both killed by beliefs in Empire and class that should have died in the trenches of France and hadn’t.
For example in The River and The Sea I was enthralled by the ideas of middle-class English people (as they exclusively were) buying a dream sight unseen and moving six thousand miles to begin a life there, trying to grow fruit in a stony desert, and their attitudes of superiority to all other races, nationalities and classes. This tied in with my interest at that time in the very similar attitudes of Franklyn and others in the Arctic and Robert Falcon Scott in the Antarctic. Men dying and starving in the cold while apple orchards died of heat and drought, both killed by beliefs in Empire and class that should have died in the trenches of France and hadn’t.
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