Q: A Word Child (1975)

38 unnumbered chapters (mostly days of week, over about 6 weeks)

characters: 824,360
words: 151,950

'To Peter Ady' [wiki]

(yes, Peter)

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Iris Murdoch Society · A Word Child Podcast

 

Peter Pan

 

📅 Hilary Burde, 41yo lives in Bayswater rental
👳Christopher Jameson Cather, 23yo, beautiful druggie cleaner

Treason of the Clerks, his old band 

Mick Ladderslow

🕺 Jimbo Davis, Welsh ballet dancer

👧 Alexandra 'Biscuit' Bissett

🍸 Mr Pellow, alcoholic neighbor

👵Laura Impiatt, women's page journalist

👴Freddie Impiatt, Etonian? lisps

Queen's Gate Terrace, Impiatts' house

🎓 Clifford Larr, Freddie's boss

Arthur Fisch, Crysta's swain, Hilary's underling

🤡 Reggie Farbottom, the office comic

👰Thomasina Forbes Uhlmeister (Tommy)

Mr Osmand, Hilary's kind teacher

💂Gunnar Jopling

👸Lady Katharine Mallow Jopling (Lady Kitty)

Kim Spranger

Jenny Searle [real, one of IM’s research students]
 

November

Q01: THURSDAY 👳📅📞💢

treason of the clerks [wiki]

The Sibyl’s leaves = the Cumaean Sibyl, a prophetess in ancient Rome who wrote her warnings on the leaves of oak trees [cite] 

pound floated 1971

Q02: BEFORE describing the events
Q03: FRIDAY
Q04: SATURDAY

November
Q05: MONDAY
Q06: TUESDAY

electrical strike = 1973 [cite]

Q07: WEDNESDAY
Q08: THURSDAY
Q09: I walked very fast
Q10: FRIDAY
Q11: I will now tell
Q12: SATURDAY
Q13: MONDAY
Q14: TUESDAY
Q15: WEDNESDAY
Q16: THURSDAY
Q17: FRIDAY
Q18: SATURDAY
Q19: MONDAY
Q20: TUESDAY
Q21: WEDNESDAY
Q22: THURSDAY
Q23: FRIDAY
Q24: SATURDAY
Q25: SUNDAY
Q26: MONDAY
Q27: TUESDAY
Q28: WEDNESDAY
Q29: THURSDAY
Q30: It was Thursday
Q31: FRIDAY
Q32: SATURDAY
Q33: SUNDAY
Q34: MONDAY
Q35: TUESDAY
Q36: It was later
Q37: CHRISTMAS EVE
Q38: CHRISTMAS DAY
 

P: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974)

"To Norah Smallwood" 65yo publisher

Rebecca West [wiki] mistook Harriet for a parody of her marriage and affairs (Monty = HG Wells? Emily = Gerd Larsen?)

57 unnumbered chapters

characters: 744,248
words: 135,594

needs editing-- lots of awkward phrasing that needs polishing

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Titian

Giorgione

1969 Jacqueline Susann title

black dogs less popular?

👨Blaise Gavender, psychotherapist
Hood House, handsome
👵 Harriet Derwent Gavender, his wife

Adrian Derwent, her brother

Ajax, her black Alsatian

Ganimede, a black miniature poodle
Babu, a black spaniel
Panda, a black labrador mongrel with white markings
Buffy, an airedale
Lawrence, a Welsh collie
Seagull, a small black and white terrier
😷David Gavender, their 16yo son
👩Emily McHugh, Blaise's 31yo mistress of nine years in Putney
👦Luca, their 8yo son

Constance Pinn, Emily's roommate

Richardson, Emily's peach and grey cat

Little Bilham, her other cat
🔍Montague (Monty) Small, detective novelist

Locketts, his cottage
💃Sophie, his two-month-deceased pretty ex-actress wife

🔫Milo Fane, his character
🤡 Edgar Demarnay, admirer of Sophie

👤Magnus Bowles 

Mrs Raines-Bloxham, elderly neighbor

👧Kiki St Loy, 17yo

Lucky Luciano

Blaise's patients:

Stanley Tumbelholme
Angelica Mendelssohn
Maurice Guimarron
Septimus Leech: O32
Penelope Biggers
Horace Ainsley
Miriam Lister
Jeannie Batwood

 midsummer

P01: The boy was there 

😷👦 #trespass
📚🔍

Excrucior, #dream 💤💭
P02: Harriet Gavender (nee Derwent)

👵👦#dream 💤💭🦇🎨😷

Ubique quo fas et gloria ducunt = where fate and glory lead
P03: Blaise Gavender had enjoyed

👨🤒#dream 💤💭🐉
P04: "'Where is Nastasia

👨📖👵😷
P05: Montague Small was awakened

🔍
P06: "Blaise is away
P07: Emily McHugh now very much
P08: Blaise Gavender was driving
P09: Blaise remembered
P10: Blaise tended to leave
P11: Monty was looking
P12: "How was poor Magnus?
P13: "What did you do
P14: My darling boy
P15: "Why don't you try
P16: Emily McHugh was sitting
P17: His failure to achieve
P18: "Monty, Monty, are you
P19: Pinn, whom Blaise
P20: My darling Harriet
P21: Harriet held the letter
P22: Blaise came back
P23: Harriet had told David
P24: "She's sitting outside
P25: Luca, sitting in the sun
P26: "Isn't it funny
P27: "You should go now
P28: After Blaise had gone
P29: "Would you like him?"
P30: Blaise, having just left
P31: "Who was that fat man
P32: "Harriet had seen her
P33: It was Saturday morning
P34: "Your resemblance to the
P35: Monty had had several
P36: Meanwhile in the Hood
P37: Monty awoke into
P38: "This one's very sweet
P39: The weather had re-established
P40: "Didn't I tell you
P41: Milo Fane, tall, cold
P42: Monty cursed
P43: "Pinn seems very happy
P44: "I'm sorry," said Monty

🔍👵
P45: "I've come to call
P46: "I want to see Harriet
P47: Monty closed and bolted
P48: Harriet stood alone
P49: Unable to take himself
P50: "If you won't fetch
P51: "Where's Kiki?"
P52: "Well, and how was it?"
P53: Blaise turned the key
P54: Harriet was not used to
P55: "What did you think
P56: "Moules?"
P57: Edgar let the Bentley