The Mountains of Mourning always has a particular sort of resonance for me because while I'm not at all sure my own kind of lake country is the sort LMB had in mind, a landscape of lakes, woods and mountainsis my childhood landscape so I have a very specific place in mind for Miles hiking up from his early morning swim with the damp running down the back of his legs.
It's a very moral story - almost, if there was an overt religious framework around it, a very "pi" story (The One in Which Miles Realises Light-Flyers Are Not Everything") and yet it works extremely well at avoiding didacticism, partly because you can both loathe Ma Mattulich and cringe inside at the appalling choice "being a good wife and mother" put before her in just-post Time of Isolation Barrayar.
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Date: 2009-07-03 07:15 pm (UTC)It's a very moral story - almost, if there was an overt religious framework around it, a very "pi" story (The One in Which Miles Realises Light-Flyers Are Not Everything") and yet it works extremely well at avoiding didacticism, partly because you can both loathe Ma Mattulich and cringe inside at the appalling choice "being a good wife and mother" put before her in just-post Time of Isolation Barrayar.