Something I just realized

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My excuse is that I haven't reread Kim in a really long time. But I just now realized that I'm always writing Kim. It's always a life-and-death journey through an exotic, lush landscape full of wonderful, strange, diverse, sometimes dangerous and often kind people, familiar even in its strangeness, where people feed you and advise you and curse you and chase you away -- and where the point of view is marginal, neither one thing or another. Except Chuy, who was so much of one tribe that the tribe's internal consistencies threatened his existence.

I guess it's always The Jungle Book too. And is it always Stalky and Company?

When I was writing The Conduit I realized towards the end that I was doing something about Heinlein and that I always was -- Heinlein of the juveniles, of Double Star, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -- of course, which is why our guy eventually chooses Mike for his name.

But Kipling comes first.