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- Tracy WiseInterview
I have my mother’s copies of her Georgette Heyer books; she opened up the world of Regency England to me. The Narnia and Lord of the Rings series I strongly associate with my brother. For my dad, the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling along with the Wheel of Time series. And, I read The Count of Monte Cristo because…
- MM McCabeInterview
Second book I give to friends most often: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling — they capture all sorts of aspects of the human condition, in wonderful language. The story of the rhinoceros is a perfect analogy for how there are people one encounters in institutional life who are just like the cake-crumbs under the…
- Dick PassinghamInterview
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. There is a real danger when people speculate about human evolution that they produce ‘Just So Stories’ that may be plausible but have no grounding in fact. Kipling’s stories on how the elephant got its trunk and so on are delightful fantasies that do not pretend to be fact, and they…
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