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:
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
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