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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 4814806" data-attributes="member: 3146">Seeing swamps as dark and dismal probably has several sources. First, since swamps are very different depending upon where you are, it is quite possible that the swamps that inspired that view are different from the everglades. Our literary heritage has a lot of england in it, after all, and dark, dismal descriptions of swamps and swampy moorland seem to be de riguer in Sherlock Holmes stories--and Charlotte or Emily Bronte novels, etc. (Such descriptions are also standard in Solomon Kane stories, but I don't think Robert Howard is writing from firsthand experience).The second is that things are very different if you are traveling through a swamp in (or on your way to or from) a nice, air conditioned car within easy reach of modern medical facilities and sleeping in a light, waterproof tent with mosquito netting than if you aren't. Even rubber boots are a relatively new invention. When you spent days traveling through a mosquito infested swamp along bad roads (which the swamps only made worse) risking diseases that were not easily treatable, wearing boots that were not entirely waterproof, and slept in a tent that didn't keep the bugs out, I imagine that you would come to a rather different conclusion about what kind of places swamps are. Even more so, if you had been disarmed by your government and would have to fend off whatever dangerous animals might decide to see if you taste good with a only your walking stick.</blockquote>

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