I was just talking to someone about what a great book Kim is–have you ever read it? you have to–when I saw on my friend ndozo’s blog that she had visited Rudyard Kipling’s house,Naulakha, in Vermont…
A spaniel on a camel, an elephant ash tray, a radiator, Rudyard Kipling’s actual toilet!!…I never even knew Rudyard Kipling had a house in Vermont. I knew that Dickens based Miss Haversham on a lady from upstate New York (go upstate! I read it in a biography of Melville) but I had no idea that Kipling wrote Captains Courageous in the Green Mountain State. Thank you, Nancy!
What a lovely surprise to visit one of my favorite blogs and find this. And it’s also funny because I had just recommended your book to my imaginary friends and one of them already put it on her Amazon wishlist. Blogrolling? You betcha. This cyber contact is great, but yo quiero una IRL visit. (Since you like that gypsy French/Spanish singer I know you’ll understand my patois.) We’re headed out to the heartland to deliver Rosie to the Quakers, but we’ll be back a week from Wed. Come east and call me. And you know what? Kipling also introduced skiing to Vermont. And he was anti-Semitic! What a multi-faceted fellow.
I wish I could just reprint your entire blog. But I’m too lazy. We’re in NYC. Coming to Wspt on Sunday for a while. So I request an audience with ndozo at that time. The skiing thing? That is amazing. Have you read Kim by the way?
And I would like to reprint YOUR blog on mine just to prove that I have at least one friend in real life, and she’s cool and smart. LOL. WTF. ETC. It’s Wednesday and I’m in Pittsburgh on the way to R’s college in Indiana with Mark and the babies. I’ll probably be back in a week or 6 days. How long will you be on the normal side of the continent? And I haven’t read Kim. Is it about an animal that dies? Because if it is, I’m not going to read it. Otherwise, I will, unless there are Nazis in it, in which case I won’t. Please let me know.
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