Saturday 10 November 2018

Good Times

In real life, we experience years of, e.g., study or work, then later recall "old times." While reading fiction, we vicariously experience series characters' careers, then maybe in a concluding installment they recall "old times," which means something to us because we have read them. A good biographical series incorporates the later years.

Poul Anderson's Adzel recalls the good days of the trade pioneer crew. And Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot:

'Goodbye, cher ami', runs his final message to the hapless Hastings. 'They were good days.' For addicts, everywhere, they were among the best.
-copied from here.

Even better, we can reread them.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Exactly! We can reread such series. Poirot, Dominic Flandry, Nicholas van Rijn, etc., they continue to live on in the stories Christie and Anderson wrote.

Sean