 Well, one other thing that I found surprising is the admirers of Kipling's writing. You have the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci. You have Bertolt Brecht, the German radical playwright. Edward Said, the great theorist of post-colonialism. He thought actually very highly of Kim. These are some of the facts about Kipling that kept me going as my friends and colleagues said, are you out of your mind to be working on the