tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post6545247181534393151..comments2024-03-27T22:25:42.129-05:00Comments on Reading the Past: The Public Gaze: A guest post by S.K. Rizzolo, author of Die I Will NotSarah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-1977029890845144582014-12-02T20:28:59.078-06:002014-12-02T20:28:59.078-06:00Am reading Henry James' letters and just thoug...Am reading Henry James' letters and just thought people might enjoy him on the difficulty of writing a good historical novel: "the real thing is almost impossible to do, & in its absence the whole effect is as nought; I mean the invention, the representation of the old consciousness, the soul, the sense, the horizon, the vision of individuals in whose minds half the things that make ours, that make the modern world were non-existent."Shelleyhttp://dustbowlstory.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com