Mere Observation

So I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I had a kind of Theory of Dunsany that I wanted to put forth when I had the time, and I seem to have time right now.  Because I’ve had a while to ponder the matter the theory has expanded from its origin point to a consideration not only of the sort of fiction people were writing a hundred years ago, but the sort of people who were writing it. Two things stand out about Lord Dunsany.  The first is that he could write volumes and volumes of short, ironic...