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I hope he gets a bit more perceptive in the coming week. Two well drawn characters, Fuji.
Thank you, Susan. I don’t hold out much hope for our nameless narrator. He has always been self-absorbed, and oblivious to beauty. However, if any place can reach him, it might be the Lake District! A long walk in those hills might do him good!
Why the English lakes?
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Since I was a child, I loved reading about the lake poets, and their long walks. I’ve just always had a soft spot for the Lake District although I’ve never been there. Am I misguided, a hopeless Anglophile?
No, not misguided. We managed a holiday there in October.
Oh Susan, that is so wonderful, that you were able to take a holiday, especially to the lakes. We’ve been under lockdown so long I can’t remember what it is like to go somewhere other than from study to kitchen to bedroom and back. How was the Lake District?
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It was in our tier 1, so we escaped from tier 2, which was allowed at the time. A wet day in Keswick was quite hairy, though they had enough walking shops to dilute the masked crowds and could certainly kit out your week-walk duo. We braved a few lunches out, tentatively. The fresh air of Derwentwater, Buttermere and Bassenthwaite lake (the only actual lake in the Lake District) was lovely, before we returned to face November lockdown. At least we got one holiday in 2020, plus a summer when we could stay with family members.
I knew you had great taste, Fuji. A lovely story, and a little self-absorbed by the narrator just as the Romantics were. The lake poets, and their long walks in the Lake District. What a time it must have been in the Romantic Period. My favourite poets are Coleridge and Wordsworth, and Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” opened my eyes to such sublime wit. Her subtle humour so artfully exposed the artist-hypocrisy. Forgive my indulgence, I envy you live so close to such history and verdant splendour. You are a very talented writer, Fuji.
It is me who lives within reach, not Fuji.
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Susan, send me a ticket. I’d love to walk those fells, crags and screes where there’s so much history. And Windermere, even the name sounds fantastical. You are truly blessed to have access to it all.
Thanks so much for your comments, Andrew! You and I share a mutual admiration for Coleridge and Wordsworth. And Jane Austen, yes! As Susan Dawson mentioned, she’s the one who lives near the Lake District – at least in the same country. I’m just an American – like you, I live in one of the colonies [smile]. The one time I visited England, my biggest thrill truly was seeing shades of green we just don’t have here. I dream of the gardens …
A week-long walk through Windermere and its surrounds would be like something out of a mixture of Tolkien, Wordsworth and Coleridge… a dream garden. Imagine the montage of photos. Your story and conversation about such a holiday got me writing ’til dawn.
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Well Fuji, what are we to to make of the two characters? And did you purposely pick the background of the Lakes, as the perfect stage setting where differences do not matter, as mother nature places everything in perspective. Intriguing!
Hello Eric! Yes I purposely picked the Lakes for this story’s setting. You described my reasons better than I could have done myself! Thanks for your lovely feedback.
I love this story – mainly because I actually live in the Lakes, and I’m always cheering for more authors to write about Cumbria ? . Really intriguing characters, I’d love to know more about their backstory. Hope you get to come and visit soon, Fuji, I truly think it’s the most beautiful part of the world.
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Hello Zelda – How incredible to meet someone who actually lives in the Lake District! I also hope I get to come visit someday. As for backstory for my characters, perhaps there will be a future story about them! I think it would be fun to have recurring characters in some of our 350 word creations, don’t you?
Another nice story, Fuji. You are very brilliant 🙂