*deep breath* My friend's boyfriend tells me that apparently he is very lovely! Without going into too much detail, my friend's boyfriend works behind the scenes for an Important Institution, and Aaronovitch came in and sat with him for a day and asked a lot of questions about the Romans, and what would happen if... &c.
I never read these books but I always meant to. I was really taken with his Doctor Who stories when I was younger and I always wanted to read these but I never did because I was like what if I read them and found out that this is stuff I would have liked to have done and I'm super envious.
I am glad that with more distance and more sense that you are enjoying them! There's a lot I want to say about how London... makes me you sort of mad as a writer, it tricks you into falling in love with it, and you can see that in Aaronovitch's work, you can see that in Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd and even Northampton's own Alan Moore, but I don't want to dump an essay on "psychogeorgraphy" in your comments. I think we're all kind of resolved to being the city's biographers though, I think that's what it is to live as a little fish in the jaws of the whale.
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Date: 2024-12-11 11:24 am (UTC)I never read these books but I always meant to. I was really taken with his Doctor Who stories when I was younger and I always wanted to read these but I never did because I was like what if I read them and found out that this is stuff I would have liked to have done and I'm super envious.
I am glad that with more distance and more sense that you are enjoying them! There's a lot I want to say about how London... makes me you sort of mad as a writer, it tricks you into falling in love with it, and you can see that in Aaronovitch's work, you can see that in Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd and even Northampton's own Alan Moore, but I don't want to dump an essay on "psychogeorgraphy" in your comments. I think we're all kind of resolved to being the city's biographers though, I think that's what it is to live as a little fish in the jaws of the whale.