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"San Francisco
is a mad City inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose
women are of remarkable beauty," said Rudyard Kipling. Kipling was
born in Bombay in 1865. Educated in England, he returned to India in 1892
and wrote for Anglo-Indian newspapers. He became famous for writing short
stories of sympathetic soldiers. Works include Soldiers Three, Barrack
Room Ballads, The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Captains Courageous,
Just So Stories, Actions and Reactions, and Limits and Renewals. Kipling
visited the City in 1889. He thought the place was barbaric but he liked
its cable car system - an innovation that was only a couple
of years old at the time - and its women. During his lifetime,
Kipling was a Nobel Prize winning man of letters. He died in 1936. Of San
Francisco Kipling added, "'Tis hard to leave." |
