tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post4129171650355057741..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Onward with Kipling's short stories - I'll just go straight to the rough stuffAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-1764438836602914532012-12-07T22:23:43.445-06:002012-12-07T22:23:43.445-06:00Really? Yes yes yes. I have read enough already ...Really? Yes yes yes. I have read enough already that I need no persuasion. Every other story in <i>Many Inventions</i> has contained a jaw-dropper or two or three - "did I read that right" moments.<br /><br />Very pleasing news!<br /><br />Miguel, I had honestly been planning to skip or postpone <i>The Light That Failed</i> but I have begun to suspect that I will have to read it for informational purposes if nothing else. It is apparently full of references to Bysshe Vanolis's bleak masterpiece "The City of Dreadful Night." How can I resist? I cannot.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-37177374808425454612012-12-07T20:56:40.782-06:002012-12-07T20:56:40.782-06:00Oh man you have no idea what's coming up next....Oh man you have no idea what's coming up next. <br />In the short story collections you've read so far Kipling was a brilliant young man (un muchacho genial in Borges' phrase). But in his next two collections, The Day's Work and Traffics and Discoveries, Kipling became the greatest short story writer the English language had seen. It only took Kipling half a dozen tales from those two books to accomplish this. The bridge builders, The Maltese cat, A sahibs' war, Wireless, They and Mrs. Bathurst are like nothing else before. Kipling wrote many more masterpieces after them, but he never surpassed that magnificent achievement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-59996227087243920402012-12-07T16:43:42.873-06:002012-12-07T16:43:42.873-06:00This reminds me I need to read more Kipling next y...This reminds me I need to read more Kipling next year; I keep putting off <i>The Light That Failed.</i>LMRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08538873868140070018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-52422422338350482912012-12-07T11:27:15.401-06:002012-12-07T11:27:15.401-06:00Shameless - yes! Although Kipling has adapted Bre...Shameless - yes! Although Kipling has adapted Breitmann to a complex and ambiguous purpose. I believe these are the only two Breitmann stories.<br /><br />For reference (what is Doug talking about?) see <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2012/10/kipling-twain-and-meermaid-vot-hadnt.html" rel="nofollow">this earlier discussion of Hans Breitmann</a>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-39431074779365072072012-12-07T11:17:54.168-06:002012-12-07T11:17:54.168-06:00He called him Hans Breitmann?? The man was shamel...He called him Hans Breitmann?? The man was shameless.Doug Skinnerhttp://www.dougskinner.netnoreply@blogger.com