Like Father, Like Son (1/1)
Like Father, Like Son
All Ages
Genre: Gen, Challenge, Character Study
Episodes: Pre-series, Post-series
Synopsis: Genetics and possessions aren't the only thing passed down from generation to generation.
Notes: Written for my " A-to-Z Stargate" challenge; archersangel requested a Daniel-centric story with the prompt "bibliophile"
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In college, he raised a number of eyebrows by reading the works of Tolstoy, Chekov, and Pushkin in their original Russian.
THIS. Daniel had to have inherited his disregard for conformity from a dad who didn't give a rat's ass about the xenophobic paranoia of the McCarthy era.
Claire was not the most beautiful woman Mel had ever known
Coincidentally, I was downloading caps of "The Gamekeeper" just a few nights ago, and developing a little crush on Daniel's mom. She's actually quite fetching in her nerd-hippie get-up.
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My parents didn't read to me often when I was a wee squirt, but I had an older sister (15 years older), Amy, who did. Amy would also sing songs and recite poetry and whatever else it took to get me to sleep at night.
Then, when I was five, I was home-schooled for kindergarten, and partly because Amy was away at college and I missed her terribly, my mom and I would sit down each weeknight to read out of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. I did most of the actual reading, and mom helped me with the big words and comprehension. That's quite a book for a wee munchkin!
(I'm pretty sure we started up another book after we finished Mohicans, but I can't remember what.)
It should come as no surprise, then, that I was writing my own stories by that age. Somewhere, Amy still has a little 3x5 spiral notepad she used to keep in her purse in which a wobbly five year-old hand painstakingly wrote with green and orange crayons about a dinosaur named Dino.
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The Last of the Mohicans is quite a mouthful for a 5-year-old. BTW, have you seen Mark Twain's review JFC's Deerslayer?
Aww. I wanna read your Adventures of Dino! I'm sure they're more original than my horribly derivative attempts at writing high fantasy when I was a 13-year-old Lord of the Rings fan.
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