Robin Seina
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I love Ivan character and even more loved his book (Captain Vorpatril's Alliance). Though I enjoyed the most the scene of Cockroach central sinking and reaction of several characters to it. Simon's, Gregor's and Miles' come to mind particularly... Where did idea come from? Also, have you heard this song?: https://brookeabbey.com/track/ivan-you-idiot I love it. Only shame it ends with Civil Campaign.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Besides reading such classic nonfiction books as Why Buildings Fall Down
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and a good deal of other nonfiction on engineering over the years, one of the oldest roots, oddly, was from a climactic scene from the old British comedy The Horse's Mouth, in which... is it spoilers for a film almost as old as I am? -- a bunch of justifiably distrait people unwittingly cross a rug that has been hastily thrown over the floor to conceal a large hole, and... slowly.. sink... out... of... sight...
I'll have to check out the Ivan song.
Ta, L.
Besides reading such classic nonfiction books as Why Buildings Fall Down
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and a good deal of other nonfiction on engineering over the years, one of the oldest roots, oddly, was from a climactic scene from the old British comedy The Horse's Mouth, in which... is it spoilers for a film almost as old as I am? -- a bunch of justifiably distrait people unwittingly cross a rug that has been hastily thrown over the floor to conceal a large hole, and... slowly.. sink... out... of... sight...
I'll have to check out the Ivan song.
Ta, L.
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Ruth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
My husband and I enjoy reading together in the evening, and thanks to one of your previous answers we recently finished Cotillion. Thanks for the recommendation! How had we missed Heyer before? I would guess that her characters and comedy significantly influenced later generations of authors.
Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just rereading Captain Vorpatril's Alliance and I keep wondering : Is it Ivan Xav like "have" or like "save"? Or something else? My mother once said that no matter how a name is spelled, it's pronounced the way the owner pronounces it. And he is in your head.
Carmen
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
That's fascinating--thanks for answering! So does Barrayaran imperial succession follows similar logic to the inheritance of Countships--in terms of being able to take into consideration things like suitability for the job or other factors, over totally inflexible male primogeniture over all other considerations (along the lines of what we saw with Rene Vorbretten)?
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