sheldrake

It's great, isn't it?

I suppose there's that mythic element to the books, but I'm more drawn to how it's contextualized in those small human ways.

Yes, I know what you're saying, and I totally agree. But what she says about the magical or mythical element in TDIR really struck a chord with me. The magic in TDIR has always seemed very fluid to me, something that can be slipped in and out of; it's unpredictable and you feel it's always just below the surface of things. That's something that's always really appealed to me about the books. Very different from say, HP magic, which I feel is (or at least is intended to be) quite precise and controlled. Although of course that has its own appeal, especially when it's explored in fic.

But there's so much good stuff in this interview. I like how she talks about Arthur as the "Dark Age war leader" and the sense of an England that's constantly threatened with invasion... those things come across very strongly in the books, I think.

Btw, I've been meaning to e-mail you for nigh on a year now. Every time I begin I forget totally what it was I was going to talk about. I'm afraid I suffer from Weird Email Angst, which is a terrible modern infliction. :)