I'm well aware of that, I'm just pointing out that it doesn't necessarily have to be Anita=LKH. Okay, it makes more sense in my head, but if you take the character, strip it off her LKHness, there's that Anita we got to know in the first few books. That's the hope I held onto when the community got started, that one day LKH will stop using the books as her therapy. That the character and the author will stop feeding off each other. I've lost that hope a long while ago, of course, but I used to be amazingly idealistic on this issue. :)
See, every time LKH blogs about Anita not letting her do one thing or another, I read it as LKH not letting Anita progress naturally and steering her in a direction only LKH is comfortable with. Because the woman has lost all ability to distinguish between herself and her heroine. What I'm basically saying is that Anita has the potential to be a character, instead of a proto-LKH.
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Date: 2006-03-17 11:23 pm (UTC)See, every time LKH blogs about Anita not letting her do one thing or another, I read it as LKH not letting Anita progress naturally and steering her in a direction only LKH is comfortable with. Because the woman has lost all ability to distinguish between herself and her heroine. What I'm basically saying is that Anita has the potential to be a character, instead of a proto-LKH.