Kevin Reitz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dag's long process of self-education, apprenticeship, experimentation, and hours of reading case files is a fascinating journey--what it takes to achieve mastery and jump further ahead to the point of ground-breaking originality (pun somewhat intended). Did you have any real-life models of comparable intellectual development in mind?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Not especially. Dag's is not a world of schools and certifications, nor of answers to be found in the back of the book, though it certainly contains ad hoc apprenticeships. Pretty much everyone has to be an autodidact, there, plus... whatever one calls it when small groups of people boot up each other, which is much the way the world of grownups works generally.
...Really, there ought to be a plural form of the autodidact concept. Besides "writers' group".
Ta, L.
Not especially. Dag's is not a world of schools and certifications, nor of answers to be found in the back of the book, though it certainly contains ad hoc apprenticeships. Pretty much everyone has to be an autodidact, there, plus... whatever one calls it when small groups of people boot up each other, which is much the way the world of grownups works generally.
...Really, there ought to be a plural form of the autodidact concept. Besides "writers' group".
Ta, L.
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Just a comment about the difference of reading a physical book vs an ebook. I purchased "The Curse of Chalion" back in 2001 and held onto it for over 12 years before I got my first Kindle. The book shows all the wear and literally over a hundred times that I've gone through it - but the e-readers can't show any of that. Isn't there something very different from handling a physical book and flipping through pages?
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