OOC post: Teja and the darkest parts of the 20th century

Picking up Teja as a charrie in Milliways, I was very much aware of one problem with the character: not the 19th century canon and its cumbersome language and outdated concepts (prudishness etc.), but the history of the canon's reception in the early 20th century. The wrong people had liked it, and still like it: nazis and neo-nazis. It shares that fate with the operas of Richard Wagner, and much more of the cultural output of 19th and early 20th century Germany. The entire 19th century 'nationalist' movement parallel to that which rediscovered Celtic roots in Ireland, or the Kalevala and suchlike pre-Christian, pre-Swedish tales in Finland, is completely contaminated with 20th century reception in the case of Germany, and the re-discovery of Germanic roots.

( Teja and the 20th century )