History in fiction is never wasted.
For those of you who’ve read a few of my previous posts you know that I’m a bit of a history nerd. I’m not formally trained in any way, no degree or even a minor. It’s just something that has always interested me. I was the kind of kid who would go to look something up in Funk & Wagnalls – for the young, that’s a heavy leather bound set of books that came out semi-annually from 1912 to 1997. Oddly enough in the 1960s and 70s they were sold through grocery stores, typically one book at a time for a dollar or two. I don’t remember if our set came directly from the local A&P or if my parents bought it at a garage sale or something. In any event, I would crack open the ‘A’ volume looking for Alligator or Albatross or whatever and never get to it. …
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Library of Erana 