On 4/26/26 19:38, David Johnson wrote:
> Hi Terry.
>
>> I think HBP distrusted large centralized governments but liked the
>> things they accomplished.
>
> I think Jay gets has it a bit more clearly: Beam distrusted /humans/,
> generally (or at least that's a consistent theme he portrayed in his
> yarns, regardless of his own beliefs).

I think we're seeing HBP's opinions through his writing, there. It's so
consistent.

What is it Chesterson said? "A Good novel tells us about the
protagonist, a bad novel tells us about the author."

I think everyone tells on themselves when they write something.

You do your best to make different characters, different points of view.

But who you are is always in there, somewhere.