Hey, I've gotta keep myself entertained somehow

[fuzzybluemonkeys]

So there's a two volume set called Forty-one Years in India by Lord Roberts of Kandahar, and then there's a single volume Reminiscences of Forty-three Years in India by Sir George Lawrence. And I'm imagining this oneupmanship where Lawrence is all, "Never mind that hack Roberts and his 41 years, I've got 43 years under my belt and I managed to cram it all into one volume, which is easier to read. Long-winded much, Roberts?"
Of course my dramatic interplay is ruined by the fact that the 43 year one was published before the 41 year one (1875 vs. 1897), but the order in which I made the labels was the other way around, so.

Comments

[tobimonkee.livejournal.com]

Maybe more interesting stuff happend in the time period before the longer book there's some overlap on the 40somthing years but there's enough difrent years that it could cover dif topics

Meanwhile it makes me think of the book "My Life in Kenya" from the britcom As Time Goes By