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[Ron Jennings]

> >it was more like granbreton, tho that still may not be right. but-
> >gran=great, breton=britain. guess that was mm's lil joke.
>
> Most of the locations in the Hawkmoon stories are real, e.g. Kamarg = the
> Camargue in the south of France, Kanbery = Canterbury.  I've seen a map,
> can't remember where, maybe in one of the new Millennium omnibuses?,
which
> makes it all totally explicit even if European geography is unfamiliar,
but
> anyway, it was deliberate making the British the villains, just to give
it
> a twist for his (at the time) mostly British readership.  ('Course, that
> was before every Hollywood film made the British the bad guys :)

thats what i meant.. i was aware of the similarities... dorian being from
Koln and all that, plus the pirates in america. the joke i meant was, as
you stated, making the brits the badguys.

> There are some typical MM jokes too, the one I recall is "Aral Vilsn",
some
> sort of legendary hero, which is of course Harold Wilson, then prime
> minister.
>
> >agreed. maybe mm made this deliberately confusing?
>
> I'd be more inclined to guess he was making it up as he went along, and
> only tried to impose that sort of structure later on?
>

that is of course, extremely possible.
rj