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Good lord, did that ever strike me as pretentious and cliche.
by SemioticStandrd 3y ago
Good lord, did that ever strike me as pretentious and cliche.
- defrost 3y agoYep. Nothing in that article reminded me in the slightest of Arthur Upfield working as a fence boundary rider on the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia while writing his then unpublished book The Sands of Windee. He had decided to write another detective novel, but with a plot difference; there being no body for the detective to find. Unfortunately, he could not think of a way to dispose of a body. Cracking that nut did lead to unforeseen consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_Murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_Murders a series of three murders, committed by an itinerant stockman known as "Snowy" Rowles .. used the murder method that had been suggested by author Arthur Upfield .. Still, at least I got to read about Bruce Chatwin getting stoned in India while eating a curry and reading Bhagavad Gita.