I, also, discovered Pinkwater via a copy of _Lizard Music_ with no known provenance.
"Pinkwater uses fictional books and movies, fictional philosophies, real books/movies/philosophies slightly altered, real books/movies/philosophies, and his own work, either altered or not, freely throughout his novels."
Not just media, also geography.
My mother drove me to High School every morning for several years. During those commutes, I read her much of Pinkwater's work. It turns out that most of Pinkwater's stories are set in a thinly-disguised Chicago (where my mother grew up), and pretty much all of the strangest neighborhoods and whatnot that get mentioned are real places that she has been to.
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Date: 2012-09-30 08:05 pm (UTC)I, also, discovered Pinkwater via a copy of _Lizard Music_ with no known provenance.
"Pinkwater uses fictional books and movies, fictional philosophies, real books/movies/philosophies slightly altered, real books/movies/philosophies, and his own work, either altered or not, freely throughout his novels."
Not just media, also geography.
My mother drove me to High School every morning for several years. During those commutes, I read her much of Pinkwater's work. It turns out that most of Pinkwater's stories are set in a thinly-disguised Chicago (where my mother grew up), and pretty much all of the strangest neighborhoods and whatnot that get mentioned are real places that she has been to.