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- From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
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- Subject: Re: 'Truckers' sequel
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:03:00 +0000
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- In article <memo.762868@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >I know about The Borrowers, and read one of the books in my teens, but I
- >disliked them; they seemed unreal, with no historical background, and it
- >seemed odd that they lived this cosy family life more or less without any
- >supporting 'civilisation'. The nomes are communcal,, and have to think in
- >terms of nomekind. No. Any influence at all is from Swift, in this case.
-
- As far as I remember (and we're going back 20 to 25 years, here) the
- Borrowers were supposed to be the last survivors of a widespread
- community of Borrowers, who lived in every available nook and cranny
- both indoors and out. I remember references to many other Borrower
- families, either deceased or Gone Away, both within the Big House - the
- Overmantles, for instance - and outside. In one book Arrietty meets one
- of the fields Borrowers who has survived the coming of Agriculture.
-
- I don't think their background is any more sketchy than that of the Nomes.
- Their *culture* is indeed an attempt to have a "cosy family life" copying
- that of full sized humans, but that was the whole point of the books.
-
- Nick.
-