03-27-2009, 10:46 PM
I clearly have far too much time on my hands. I've just finished Graham Swift's amazing novel, "Waterland" and before that the equally amazing Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things". Now I've read two books with too much drowning going on I think I could do with something cheerier. Reading a Graham Chapman biography isn't doing it for me and I'm pretty certain it won't have a happy ending either!
It's fascinating seeing the process from the other side. I've had a curious couple of weeks corresponding with a British author now living in the USA who was given my name by someone in Berlin whilst researching for something like his hundred-and-somethingth book ... if I'm to believe what Wiki says about him. I know of at least two works of fiction containing very minor characters based on me, but I've never knowingly been caught up in the facts before
It's fascinating seeing the process from the other side. I've had a curious couple of weeks corresponding with a British author now living in the USA who was given my name by someone in Berlin whilst researching for something like his hundred-and-somethingth book ... if I'm to believe what Wiki says about him. I know of at least two works of fiction containing very minor characters based on me, but I've never knowingly been caught up in the facts before