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The Culture: Rediscovering The Spirit Of '76

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Originally posted by Nicholas Provenzo from The Rule of Reason,

Note: In a CAC exclusive, novelist Edward Cline talks about why he wrote his epic Sparrowhawk series.

When I first pondered the task of researching writing the Sparrowhawk series of novels, I asked myself: What was it that I wanted to accomplish, aside from recreating 18th century Britain and America and the conflict between them? What would be the primary purpose of the story? And how could that purpose best be dramatized?

My purpose was to make real the caliber of men who made the Revolution possible. It was as simple as that. What needed to be dramatized was a stature conspicuously absent in most men today. Ideally, a writer writes for his own pleasure, for his own ends. My pleasure and my end were to recreate such men as an exercise in sanity, to escape the droning, enervating miasma of today's culture and politics and recreate a world, to paraphrase Ayn Rand on the value of Romantic fiction, populated by men who should have been my neighbors.

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This year, I decided (as something of a "New Year resolution"), to read one fiction novel. After reading Bill Bucko's review, I decided to give Sparrowhawk a shot. I have it now. Will report back when I'm done... [2007?]

I just yesterday received volume 5 of Sparrowhawk in the mail from Amazon. I'm looking forward to reading it; this series is just getting better and better as it goes on.

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