I'm back in business

[ritaxis]

The Minerva automobile company produced exactly the kind of automobiles I want, and the DeDion-Bouton company also produced the kind of automobiles I want, at the right time, and they tended to be owned by royalty.  I'm going to have to fix some things, but I don't have to re-write every trip back and forth from the palace to the "old castle" (which is actually mostly a rel;atively modern manor), and most importantly, I don't have to re-cast the character of the chauffeur that is the closest Yanek has to a father figure in his early childhood.

Also, Poznan Imperial Castle looks as I think the Duke's Palace ought to, and was built at a plausible time. 

I am so relieved.  I don't mind fixing up a bunch of things, but I really didn't want to have to revise everything about Yuri.  I think I have to do a bunch of horse work in revision anyway, but Yuri! remains!

I have actually spoken aloud a couple of times today, without thinking. Shut up, Lucy.  You're trying to get better.

edit: Sorry, that first one, that's all wood, it's a 1906 Fondu, not a Minerva, and it's "Russo-Baltic," whatever that means in this context.

Anyway, that's three companies making closed-cabin automobiles for rich people to ride around in.

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[kip-w.livejournal.com]

DeDion-Bouton sounds familiar. Wasn't one of those in the famous New York to Paris road race? I saw a photo that indicates that this race went right through the lovely town of Pittsford, where I now live.

Though in that case, my sympathy was squarely with the underdog Züst, which was dogged with ill fortune every step of the way but still finished… my memory of the book I read in grade school says third… and not long after the race, the car somehow caught fire and burned up (in that order).