I can feel the same about my own at times! Just in case you’re interested Annette, I’ve started serialising my historical detective story set in Lichfield here as both audio and text. https://open.substack.com/pub/lichfieldmysteries.
Never had cause to compare The Jungle Book as written in prose by Rudyard Kipling with Walt Disney's adaptation of it as an animated motion picture?
Never dived into the adventures of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan as Kipling penned and published them in 1888 or as Michael Caine and Sean Connery played them in the filmed version released in 1975?
Never, yet, turned to a page written by the first English person to be award the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907)? Never, yet, turned over from one of his prose pages to read on engaged page by page? Never, yet, turned your reader's eyes back from the last line of one his poems to re-read again and more closely from the top?
I'm surprised that Kipling bypassed the classrooms of your education Annette. Pieces of his invited into various classrooms throughout the arc of my school education... I'd have said because he formed part of the core curriculum deemed necessary and appropriate to be delivered (as it were osmotically) unto us (pupils) by successive post-war Secretaries of State for Education.
An yet here, on the Easter morn, I find myself amazed Kipling in your formative experience seems to have been consigned to an educational siding that has you in, let's say, 'Never Never Land' when it comes to Rudyard Kipling.
As to The Bible, yes I have familiarity (likewise gained osmotically through being raised and educated in The Catholic Tradition) with much but would not say all of it.
This is well written (obviously!), but I wanted to say that I thought your photos were really good! Thanks for sharing them.
Hey, thank you, Mark. 🙏 Nice of you to say.
I can feel the same about my own at times! Just in case you’re interested Annette, I’ve started serialising my historical detective story set in Lichfield here as both audio and text. https://open.substack.com/pub/lichfieldmysteries.
With best wishes John
Thank you John! Will check it out. 🙂
Thanks Annette. All comments welcome!
Never encountered, read and reflected on 'If'?
Never had cause to compare The Jungle Book as written in prose by Rudyard Kipling with Walt Disney's adaptation of it as an animated motion picture?
Never dived into the adventures of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan as Kipling penned and published them in 1888 or as Michael Caine and Sean Connery played them in the filmed version released in 1975?
Never, yet, turned to a page written by the first English person to be award the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907)? Never, yet, turned over from one of his prose pages to read on engaged page by page? Never, yet, turned your reader's eyes back from the last line of one his poems to re-read again and more closely from the top?
Why?
I don’t know. There’s a lot of literature out there and not very much time. Have you read the Bible? Increasingly thinking I should read that as well.
'Just So'!
I'm surprised that Kipling bypassed the classrooms of your education Annette. Pieces of his invited into various classrooms throughout the arc of my school education... I'd have said because he formed part of the core curriculum deemed necessary and appropriate to be delivered (as it were osmotically) unto us (pupils) by successive post-war Secretaries of State for Education.
An yet here, on the Easter morn, I find myself amazed Kipling in your formative experience seems to have been consigned to an educational siding that has you in, let's say, 'Never Never Land' when it comes to Rudyard Kipling.
As to The Bible, yes I have familiarity (likewise gained osmotically through being raised and educated in The Catholic Tradition) with much but would not say all of it.
BTW: Happy Easter 🐰
And to you!
There have been quite a few attacks on Kipling of that nature, unfortunately.