--- Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote: > > > been a "Jean Brust" of that generation, for all I know. (His parents > > came from Hungary, bringing Bill with them, in 1920, it says here, as > > a result of having been on the losing side in the 1919 Hungarian > > revoluion.) > > > > Odd...I remember being told all my life that it was '21, not 20. But > you're > right about the rest of it. My Grandfather, Zoltan Brust, was a > delegate to > his soviet (I think he worked in a bicycle factory) in the revolution of > 1919, and left when Horthy came to power. So far as I know, his wife, > Mariska, was never political. The attitude nagyapa (grandpa) Have you already mentioned whether that's pronounced something like "Noish-pa"? > always > presented to my father was something like, "Well, if a revolution comes > along, of course you support it, but don't go out of your way to make > trouble." Since that sounds kind of familiar. > Dad, of course, specialized in going out of his way to make > trouble. The other thing nagyapa used to say whenever my father screwed > up > was, "From this you make a revolution?" > > > > You don't ask about Steven's personal life in this part that I can > > see; the question of whether Kelly's group is anything like politics > > on Earth being different from the question of whether it's like > > *Steven's* politics or the politics of any other actual person. > > Authors, as you know, often write about characters and groups that > > they don't fully agree with. > > Correct again. In particular, if I'm going to introduce politics into a > story, I try to make it politics that my protragonists are contemptuous > of, > or at least don't agree with; my hope is that this keeps me from getting > pedantic. I hate pedantic fiction. Hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate > it. > > I'll have to write something blatently pedantic one of these days. "Protagonists" and "blatantly". Sorry, but I had to do that. Had to. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus