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Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
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Read from July 25, 2011 to March 20, 2012

A delightful hymn to the English countryside, and a child's primer on British history (though not half so jingoistic a one as Kipling's reputation might lead you to expect), but also an unacknowledged precursor to psychogeography, albeit in its less fashionable rural wing.

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Mar 20, 2012 05:26pm

Antonomasia I loved this book when I was a kid; had never thought of connecting it with psychogeography before - very interesting.


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Mar 23, 2012 01:15am

Alex Sarll It wasn't just the basic structure which made me draw the connection, though that would have been enough. It was the way those hidden stories so often turned not on the land's supposed owners and rulers, but on the quiet and unregarded poor folk, most strongly represented in old Hobden.


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