[Lazamataz]

Kipling should be honored in his afterlife to know how much of an impact he made on contemporary times.

He’s one of my heros. Ben Franklin is another.

[Tax-chick]

Ben Franklin is one of those characters who has to be real because nobody would have thought him up on their own.

I honestly can't remember a time when I didn't love Kipling. It started with stories from The Jungle Book, like "Rikki Tikki Tavi," but I was reading and memorizing his Indian poetry by the time I was in junior high.

My children are picking it up, too. Bill the Son (older brother of Tom, the future global dictator) took a college course on colonial India. To quote my mom, "What does this have to do with your major? When are you finally going to graduate already?" (August 2016!)