Kalen Delaney
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
After reading Masquerade in Lodi, I am now rereading all the Penric books, as there were references in the new one that didn't quite ring a bell. And just this morning, a memory popped up. There is a real town called Lodi, in the central valley of California. Were you aware of it? Credence Clearwater even wrote a song about it, with the chorus: Oh Lord, I'm Stuck in Lodi Again. Oh, and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
Lois McMaster Bujold
There are dozens of real-world places named Lodi, mostly I suspect after the original one in Italy. I'd selected the city name somewhat idly back when it was just a throw-away line in an earlier Penric story, with no expectation of its ever becoming a live setting, because it sounded suitably Italianate, implying but without obviously being Venice. And so I was stuck with it. (Same goes for the planet Jackson's Whole, btw. No, it never had a hidden meaning, it was just a bit of word-play.)
Glad you enjoyed the story! The filched canal-city setting-inspiration was a lot of fun, once I got down to it, and suggested all kinds of useful plot developments.
(And, yep, I also remember the old CCR song.)
Ta, L.
There are dozens of real-world places named Lodi, mostly I suspect after the original one in Italy. I'd selected the city name somewhat idly back when it was just a throw-away line in an earlier Penric story, with no expectation of its ever becoming a live setting, because it sounded suitably Italianate, implying but without obviously being Venice. And so I was stuck with it. (Same goes for the planet Jackson's Whole, btw. No, it never had a hidden meaning, it was just a bit of word-play.)
Glad you enjoyed the story! The filched canal-city setting-inspiration was a lot of fun, once I got down to it, and suggested all kinds of useful plot developments.
(And, yep, I also remember the old CCR song.)
Ta, L.
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