Peter H. Salus: Blog

I hadn't expected the response to either Kipling nor that there was (only) one more chapter to "Sam."

So, to appease you all, my current plan is:
(a) Complete "Sam";
(b) write the tale of Gordy's parents [bridging "Andy" and "Young Gordy";
(c) eventually return to Sam's life.

Please keep in mind that I am an old codger who only began "Laverton" after retiring at 65.

My apologies to those of you who wrote. In Kipling's "The Elephant's Child," we find "there was one Elephant-a new Elephant-an Elephant's Child-who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions."

I used this in Patrick's youth (after Gordy buys him the "Jungle Books"), and assumed that people would recognize the Kipling.

I'm just an intellectual snob.

I know that I ought to be writing about Richard, as he is/was/will be Gordy's father. But I have begun a different end of history: Sam. I expect to post around Tax Day (15 April in the US; 1 May in Canada). This gives me a bit of leeway.

I hadn't been aware of the varied interests of my readers. In response to several requests, my "knowledge" of the naval history stems from two books:
T.K. Fitchett, The Vanished Fleet (Rigby, 1976) and
Barry Pemberton, Australian Coastal Shipping (Melbourne U.P., 1979)

Pemberton's book contains a number of photos; Fitchett has executed meticulous watercolours of each vessel.

Thanks to the incomparable Lazeez, everything is fixed now (except my own stupidities).