...to write about what I feel like writing about.
So what I feel like writing about - is a certain overlap I've sensed between the writings of V.S. Naipaul and Joseph Conrad.
And apparently I'm not the first to have noticed. (As a quick word search of this site, a collection of mostly academic publications will reveal.)
I'm reading Conrad for the first time, if you can believe it; well after having read Naipaul some number of years ago (A Bend in the River). So I don't really see this as a study in how Conrad may influenced Naipaul, but more how my having first read Naipaul influences my reading of Conrad.
Also interesting is the need academics seem to feel to group topics in threes: Conrad, Greene, Naipaul. Conrad, Lowry, Naipaul. It seems to be an implicit requirement that, if you drew a correlation between two writers, you damn well better go out and find a third one to add to the mix.
So yes, this really is the sort of stuff I prefer to write about and think about.
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