Passage of Anita time?

[easol.livejournal.com]

This has actually been discussed before, talking about how Hamilton is slowing time within her series, so as to keep Anita in her late twenties... apparently forever. Over the course of the whole series, we've had what, three years pass? Four, five, max?

(I can't remember how old she was at the start of the series, so maybe someone can help me out here. I think she's been twenty-seven for a number of books now).

But I recently realized that apparently time is only warping for Whorenita and her carousel of penii. They have only aged a few years (or not, if vampiric), but LKH makes mentions of "the eighties" in the far past tense (in terms of derogatory dress criticism, hilariously enough). And her last book has Nathaniel dragging Whorenita to go watch Peter Jackson's "King Kong," which came out two years ago. (On a side note, I'm relieved that she didn't pay attention to the movie -- since it's a man-woman-ape love triangle, she'd be demanding sexxors)

Meaning that Whorenita, Nathaniel and the rest have aged a mere three-ish years since the early nineties, right up to 2005. That's more than a decade that has been compressed into just a couple of years! Is LKH really so deluded that she thinks she can bend time within her novels and not have anyone notice?

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[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

She's made comments in one of her books about "Wild Horse Creek Road" and being totally familiar w/ that area, I know when it started to become the over populated yuppyville it is today - the transformation started in the late 90's... but, the way she described it in the book was to put it in current times.

(And, I mourn for when it was a country back road filled with farms & such instead of McMansions.... :( Because, it was a faster way into Chesterfield from out where I live.)

[denouement16.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about the superfast changes in St. Louis, Jefferson and St. Charles counties. You wouldn't recognize a description of many roads from just 5-10 years ago.

Sometimes though, she's wrong and it grates on me sooooooo hard. In one of the books she describes the Zumbehl Exit on I-70 and is totally wrong, even for the time period she was writing in. Would it be that hard to drive over and check it out?

My favorite LKH geography pet peeve though is Merry Gentry living in Cahokia, IL, at Cahokia Mounds. Cahokia Mounds are in a different county than Cahokia, IL. They're not the same thing! That's simple "look at a map" research.

[denouement16.livejournal.com]

I think my grammar might be degrading. There are missing commas in that post!

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

But, we're talking LKH - that would make too much sense! :-p

And, I'm glad she's so far left where I live now - Franklin Co./Washington, alone! *sigh of relief*

[denouement16.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I moved to Illinois. We don't even live in the same state anymore!