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Day 27

If a book, with it's tone, dialogue, characters, setting, were to be a life you would chose, which would it be? Include the bad spots and why you'd chose those. This could be revealing...

 

Well, I can tell you a few comparisons: I'd rather be in Harry Potter than Lord of the Rings. The Shire's better than Muggle London, but Middle Earth seems so sparse on humans, and a twilight world, whereas the wizard world is claustrophobic yet surrounded by an outer universe of people.

And despite their difficulty, I like people.

I'd take Daddy-Long-Legs over I Capture the Castle.

Damar over Dune.



If we combine favorite period and favorite sense of magic and humanity--I think I'd go with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. The bones-of-earth feel to the magic, the contradictions of the polite common-places of the British society in a time of high war, and the abandon of the results of magic and the controlled scholarship of those practicing it fascinates me.