"a pastiche of Joyce-Stephens-Beckett" --IM
[ebooks]
chars: 531,105
words: 99,428
chapters: 20
influences:
Queneau's Pierrot [ebook]
Beckett's Murphy [ebook]
LW is referring to 'halftone' printing process (not, eg, tennis)
alternate titles:
Still Waters
Let Down Your Nets
The Looker-On
Dialogue of One
The Song and the Words
The Last Word
The Signs Among Us
That's What I Said
The Active Voice
Time's Fool
philosophy:
necessary/contingent (Sartre)
places:
Earls Court road [Earth]
wizard:
Hugo Belfounder (based on Yorick Smythies?)
Laughing Cavalier [essay]
animals:
Mister Mars (Alsation dog)
Maggie (tabby cat)
motifs:
mime
judo
lockpicking
swimming
dog
characters:
👁James Donaghue (Jake), a writer and translator in his early thirties
🥔Peter O'Finney (Finn), a distant cousin
⌨️Magdalen (Madge), a typist living on Earls Court Road [surname Casement unattested?]
🏇Samuel Starfield (Sammy), a wealthy bookmaker
🐈Mrs Tinckham, a chain-smoking, cat-loving shopkeeper near Charlotte Street
🔨Dave Gellman, a Jewish anti-Metaphysical philosopher, living on Goldhawk Road
Lefty Todd, leader of the New Independent Socialist Party
🎤Anna Quentin, a singer
💃Sadie Quentin, a film star
💥Hugo Belfounder, a fireworks manufacturer and film magnate
Ward Matron; Sister Piddingham; Stitch, a hospital porter
🐕 Mister Mars, a 14-year-old Alsatian, the star of many popular animal movies
📚Jean-Pierre Breteuil, a French writer whose novels include:
Le Rossignol de Bois ("The Wooden Nightingale")
Les Pierres de l'Amour ("Stones of Love")
Nous les Vainqueurs ("We the Victors")
💰 Homer K. Pringsheim (H.K.), an American film magnate
🥔Peter O'Finney (Finn), a distant cousin
⌨️Magdalen (Madge), a typist living on Earls Court Road [surname Casement unattested?]
🏇Samuel Starfield (Sammy), a wealthy bookmaker
🐈Mrs Tinckham, a chain-smoking, cat-loving shopkeeper near Charlotte Street
🔨Dave Gellman, a Jewish anti-Metaphysical philosopher, living on Goldhawk Road
Lefty Todd, leader of the New Independent Socialist Party
🎤Anna Quentin, a singer
💃Sadie Quentin, a film star
💥Hugo Belfounder, a fireworks manufacturer and film magnate
Ward Matron; Sister Piddingham; Stitch, a hospital porter
🐕 Mister Mars, a 14-year-old Alsatian, the star of many popular animal movies
📚Jean-Pierre Breteuil, a French writer whose novels include:
Le Rossignol de Bois ("The Wooden Nightingale")
Les Pierres de l'Amour ("Stones of Love")
Nous les Vainqueurs ("We the Victors")
💰 Homer K. Pringsheim (H.K.), an American film magnate
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