Friday, December 4, 2020

T: Nuns and Soldiers (1980)

IM was 61yo, married 24yrs 

inspired by Henry James "Wings of the Dove" [etext] Tim and Daisy = Densher and Kate

nine numbered sections, 105? unnumbered subsections

characters 1,039,435
words 188,647

 To Natasha and Stephen Spender

 

1959

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Munch print T35

 'There is only one nun and no soldiers at all.'

๐Ÿ‘จGuy Openshaw, 44yo, dying of cancer
๐Ÿ’‚Piotr Wojciech Szczepanski, 'the Count'
๐Ÿ‘ฉ Gertrude, Guy's wife
๐Ÿ‘ฐAnne Cavidge, ex-nun
๐Ÿ‘ฆTim Reede, unsuccessful artist
๐Ÿ‘งDaisy, Tim's girlfriend

Balintoy

Gerald Pavitt

Stanley Openshaw,  Janet



T11: One 'Wittgenstein?'
T12: Through the door
T13: The Count, it should be explained
T14: As a child the Count
T15: When the Count was over thirty
T16: The Count stood at attention
T17: 'Would you like anything?
T18: Manfred put his head
T19: Veronica Mount
T1: The Count would have liked
T1: There is a gulf fixed
T1: The Count  went into the kitchen
T1: While the count was listening
T1: It was the next morning
T1: Anne Cavidge  sat
T1: 'Is that all
T1: By this time, back
T1: 'I wish you had seen
T1: Just outside the partly
T21: Two  Time had passed
T22: It was the day
T23: 'It was the Count
T24: Tim Reede was mooching
T25: 'Bloody baked beans
T26: 'You mean you're short
T27: The bell rang
T31: Three  Tim Reede
T32: About four
T33: It was twilight
T34: Gertrude too
T35: Tim's first feeling

Munch print (not startled??)
T36: UNEXPECTED SNAG
T37: When he awoke, Gertrude
T38: Lying on her bed
T39: 'I wish you had
T3: Tim Reede awoke. He
T3: They spent the morning
T3: Tim Reede awoke. Joy
T3: Gertrude was sitting
T3: 'Gertrude! Oh
T3: About the time
T3: Tim entered
T3: 'So Tim Reede just
T3: What's happened
T3: 'Goodbye
T41: Four  'Well, and how
T42: 'We're the official
T43: Tim and Gertrude
T44: 'It's Mary
T45: 'You didn't
T46: The Count was sitting
T47: The Count did sleep
T48: 'You mean you want
T49: Gertrude had said
T4: 'So yer back
T4: Everything began
T4: Lying naked
T51:Five It was done
T52: 'When you leave
T53: Jesus Christ came
T54: It was at this point
Anne woke up
'How is your
'Well, I think
'Anne-- I have just
The Count had spent
It was evening
Anne rang the bell
'Have you been to
Tim entered humming
'Oh Time
T61: Six  'What a bore
T62: Tim had arrived
T63: 'He took money
T64: 'All the same
T65: 'I don't like
T66: Dear Tim
T67: 'Well, who wrote
T68: Tim and Daisy were
T71: Seven 'The rocks
He felt that he needed
On the fifth morning
Anne Cavidge lay
Gertrude knocked
'How's Anne
How exactly
A letter did come
'Marie
As Tim gazed
Tim might as well
When Tim woke
Tim had taken
Suddenly and
Vigilant Anne
'Come on
'But you're hurt
'You're telling it
T81: Eight  Anne was following
T82: The Count lay sleepless
T83: Tim was standing
T84: The Count came into
T85: 'Anne, my dearyou there

Polish pope [wiki]
T91: Nine  'Why did
T92: 'Have you got
T93: Anne Cavidge was sitting

'Were
? /Oh Anne

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

S: The Sea, the Sea (1978)

157 unnumbered chapters, six numbered divisions

CHARACTERS
1,073,289

WORDS
198,994

begun 26 Oct 1976 (IM 57yo, married 20yrs)

 

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To Rosemary Cramp [wiki]


Charles Arrowby, 60something famous actor, retired

Shruff End, his newly acquired home

Mrs Chorney

Mr Arkwright

๐Ÿ‰ sea monster 

๐Ÿ‘งLizzie Scherer

Sidney

Peregrine

Fritzie

Wilfred

Rosina Vamburgh

Jeanne

Clement Makin

Gilbert Opian

Nell Pickering, 22yo

James Arrowby, Charles' cousin

Abel and Estelle, James' parents

Ramsdens, their home

Mary Hartley Smith Fitch

Victor and Julia Banstead

Sidney and Rosemary Ashe

Will and Adelaide Boase


takes place May/June

S001: PREHISTORY The sea which lies before me
S002: I had written the above
S003: I spoke of a memoir
S004: Of course there is no need to separate
S005: I might now introduce myself
S006: The above observations have been written

๐ŸŠ
S007: Another day has passed since I wrote
S008: It is after lunch and I shall now describe
S009: I wonder if I shall ever write
S010: I will now describe the house
S011: The sea is noisier
S012: It is night. Two oil lamps
S013: Two days have passed since I wrote
S014: My paternal grandfather was a market gardener
S015: I was utterly horrified
S016: Another day
S017: 'Mr Arkwright, do you ever see
S018: I think it is not going to be too easy
S019: But to return to myself
S020: Something rather odd and distressing
S021: 'But all your letters are in the dog kennel
S022: I have been sitting for some time in the little red room
S023: I wanted a wife once
S024: I am writing this after dinner
S025: 'Do you know what a poltergeist is
S026: Searching for a place to plant
S027: When I was young I could never decide
S028: Rereading these paragraphs I feel again
S029: 'A man would drown there in a second
S030: I am writing this the next morning
S031: I have been out shopping
S032: It is after lunch
S033: I have been out picking flowers
S034: I reread my pieces
S035: Since I started writing this
S036: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
S037: Having written this much what can I say
S038: Some time during this period
S039: I ate three oranges at eleven
S040: I have spent the afternoon tidying
S041: I feel calmer now already
S101: ONE I did not look at the crabs
S102: It is now two
S103: Shortly after this
S201: TWO Now in
S202: I woke up
S203: I already had
S204: Nibletts is
S205: The next day before
S206: I waited in the church
S207: Dearest Lizzie
S208: I emerged
S209: I resisted
S301: History THREE 'Every
S302: As I had been
S303: 'Every persisting
S304: When I had finished writing
S305: 'Feeling better?
S306: 'But my dear Charles
S307: There was no fog
S308: I have written this out
S309: The next day I was like
S310: I shall now transcribe
S311: I wrote this letter quickly
S312: I will now describe what happened next
S313: In the first seconds
S401: History FOUR What follows
S402: A little later
S403: I may have described
S404: Of course he had
S405: I was lying in tall
S406: So far so good
S407: The next morning I woke
S408: There followed some
S409: I awoke suddenly
S410: I woke up
S411: The next morning something did
S412: The rest of that day
S413: Towards six-thirty

Whitsunday = late May or early June
S414: The next morning there was
S415: Later on that day
S416: Dear Mr Fitch
S501: History FIVE  The next day
S502: Before I reached
S503: I went away across
S504: There was lunch
S505: And they went on singing
S506: As I am writing
S507: I was lying on my back
S508: I must here record
S509: 'But how on earth
S510: Lizzie, to whom
S511: My assailant was
S512: I had not had
S513: Hartley, dearest
S514: It was the following day
S515: I cannot bear
S601: History SIX It was a short time
S602: During the last days
S603: That day and the next
S604: And so, waiting
S605: I did not open
S606: The next day was simply
S607: I came up as far
S608: So, I had five weeks
S609: I was of course
S610: That evening the clouds
S611: It was now late
S612: I awoke and it was day
S613: When I reached the house
S614: I woke rather late
S615: I must write this
S616: I read the letter though
S617: I woke up and it was
S701: Postscript Life Goes On That no doubt
S702: Another peevish
S703: I suppose I must
S704: I have just found
S705: I saw Lizzie and Gilbert
S706: Am I settling
S707: Last night at a little
S708: A few letters have arrived
S709: I cannot think
S710: Of course this chattering
S711: Gradually autumn
S712: Yes, I wonder
S713: I did not intend
S714: Thinking further
S715: Since writing the above
S716: I have just heard
S717: There have been
S718: The shock of
S719: Peregrine opened
S720: Uncle Abel dancing
S721: My father was
S722: I have just had
S723: James said that
S724: How long I
S725: When did they
S726: Why did I
S727: If this diary
S728: Of course I do not
S729: When did I begin
S730: A busy week
S731: I must speak
S732: I have had
S733: A completely new view
S734: The people from
S735: A letter from Jeanne
S736: I have talked with Lizzie
S737: Last night I dreamt
S738: I have been to
S739: It is very foggy
S740: Took Miss
S741: Decided to release
S742: Yes of course
S743: My God, that bloody

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

R: Henry and Cato (1976)

begun 17 aug 1974

1st draft finished 2 feb 1975

completed 15 oct 1975 (703 handwritten pages)

subtitle: A Tale of Two Prodigal Sons

She wants to use for the cover a painting belonging to Morton May, which is in a cupboard in the vaults of the Art Museum at St Louis.

78 unnumbered chapters

characters: 772,056
words: 140,489

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IM was 57, married 20 years

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To Stephen Gardiner [wiki] b1924 [more]





 

 

 

 

 

Max Beckmann

 


 

trundle-tailed dog

Titian [R17]

Departure

Stephanie's brooch

kestrel



๐Ÿ‘จHenry Marshalson, 32yo, art prof, younger son of a wealthy landowner
๐ŸŽSandy Marshalson, Henry's deceased elder brother
๐Ÿ‘ตGerda Marshalson, their mother
Laxlinden Hall, Marshalson family home
๐Ÿ‘ณCato Forbes, early thirties, priest
๐Ÿ‘งColette Forbes, younger sister of Cato, dropout, loves Henry
๐Ÿ‘ฆJoseph 'Beautiful Joe' Beckett, 17yo outlaw, Cato's love
๐Ÿ‘ดLucius Lamb, poet living at Laxlinden Hall
๐ŸฉStephanie Whitehouse, Sandy's 34yo mistress
Brendan Craddock, Cato's priest/friend, Joe's lover
๐Ÿ‘ด๐Ÿ“ฃJohn Forbes, Cato and Colette's father
Pennwood, Cato's father's house
 

R00: Part One RITES OF PASSAGE

R01: Cato Forbes had already crossed

R02: At about the hour when Cato Forbes was walking up and down in the mist on Hungerford Bridge, Henry Marshalson was awakening
bird-headed
R03: At about the hour when Cato Forbes was walking to and fro on Hungerford Bridge and Henry Marshalson was awakening from his first sleep on the jumbo jet high above the Atlantic, Gerda Marshalson

R04: An hour later Gerda was still sitting

R05: At about the hour when Cato Forbes was walking to and fro on Hungerford Bridge and Henry Marshalson was awakening from his first sleep on the jumbo jet high above the Atlantic and Gerda Marshalson and Lucius Lamb were in conference

R06: Cato Forbes, hidden underneath a black umbrella, was walking along Ladbroke Grove

R07: Henry Marshalson was standing so still

R08: 'Copper-bottomed?'

R09: 'Lucius, I do wish you wouldn't

R10: Soon thinking about himself

R11: Supposing one lacked the concept of suffering

R12: The chief reason why Hannibal succeeded

R13: The garden was darkening a little

R14: Gerda, standing at the windows

R15: The headlights of the yellow Volvo

R16: It was very dark and muddy in the lane

R17: 'That rich chap—'
Titian
R18: I wonder if Max ever saw that?

R19: Lucius, packing his suitcase, thought

R20: Gerda, looking from the terrace

R21: Henry, who had walked over

R22: Lucius puffed down the stairs with his suitcase

R23: Meanwhile upstairs harlequin Henry

R24: Constant employment was the rule at Pennwood

R25: Safe at home later

R26: John Forbes, going to bed

R27: 'I saw your kestrel again,'

R28: Gerda was standing in the ballroom

R29: Lucius was awake too

R30: 'Did you see any sign of a ring

R31: 'Colette—' 'Oh, Mrs Marshalson—'

R32: 'Oh, I'm so glad. I thought perhaps you wouldn't come

R33: 'I heard from Gerald Dealman,'

R34: Henry was standing on the terrace

R35: My dear Cato, I am sorry you went

R36: Henry was awake in the early morning

R37: 'This is the first time we've ever got drunk together

R38: 'Mother,' said Henry, 'may I introduce my fiancee

R39: Henry skipped along the hall

R40: Cato Forbes, looking around guiltily

R41: Dear Colette, I have got your sweet touching utterly ridiculous and dotty letter

R42: 'Careful,' said Henry, standing back

R43: 'Don't go on about it, Steph

R44: 'Give him his plate, and you go to bed

Part Two THE GREAT TEACHER

R45: 'It's a very little diamond

R46: 'How are you feeling, Father?'

R47: It was dark in the alleyway

R48: Gerda, dressed in her checkered blue and green robe

R49: Henry came through the front door like a whirlwind

R50: The darkness was total

R51: He had been asleep and woke

R52: Dear Henry, They want the rest of the money quick

R53: 'What is it?' said Gerda

R54: Henry was sitting at the big scrubbed kitchen table

R55: Awkwardly, dragging at her hair

R56: 'I've got to sleep,' said Henry

R57: Cato had been jerking the pipe to and fro

R58: The candle was burning on the shelf

R59: Cato had got up and was sitting on the bed

R60: 'By the way, I found those Landseer sketches

R61: 'Hello, Steph, I like your hat.'

R62: About fifteen minutes later Henry, having run

R63: 'I've never known anybody famous,' said Stephanie

R64: Henry rang the bell. A man opened the door.

R65: Twenty minutes later Henry was sitting

R66: 'I've decided to write my autobiography

R67: 'Do you mind if I sit with you, Mother?'

R68: 'Oh stop crying, Colette,' said John Forbes

R69: 'It's all fixed,' said Henry

R70: Henry was sitting on the bed

R71: Gerda, who had heard Henry's rapid descent

R72: Do you consider yourself to be sexually experienced?

R73: 'Your side looks higher, Bellamy

R74: 'Listen to the cuckoo.'

R75: 'Would you like the walnut cake?'

R76: A while later Lucius became conscious

R77: John Forbes was in bed

R78: 'You aren't taking any books?' said Cato.

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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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Peter Pan

 

๐Ÿ“… Hilary Burde, 41yo lives in Bayswater rental
๐Ÿ‘ณChristopher Jameson Cather, 23yo, beautiful druggie cleaner

Treason of the Clerks, his old band 

Mick Ladderslow

๐Ÿ•บ Jimbo Davis, Welsh ballet dancer

๐Ÿ‘ง Alexandra 'Biscuit' Bissett

๐Ÿธ Mr Pellow, alcoholic neighbor

๐Ÿ‘ตLaura Impiatt, women's page journalist

๐Ÿ‘ดFreddie Impiatt, Etonian? lisps

Queen's Gate Terrace, Impiatts' house

๐ŸŽ“ Clifford Larr, Freddie's boss

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

๐Ÿคก Reggie Farbottom, the office comic

๐Ÿ‘ฐThomasina Forbes Uhlmeister (Tommy)

Mr Osmand, Hilary's kind teacher


๐Ÿ’‚Gunnar Jopling

๐Ÿ‘ธLady Katharine Mallow Jopling (Lady Kitty)

Kim Spranger

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

November

Q01: THURSDAY ๐Ÿ‘ณ๐Ÿ“…๐Ÿ“ž๐Ÿ’ข

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
 

Sunday, October 11, 2020

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


๐Ÿ‘จBlaise Gavender, psychotherapist
Hood House, handsome
๐Ÿ‘ต 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
๐Ÿ˜ทDavid Gavender, their 16yo son
๐Ÿ‘ฉEmily McHugh, Blaise's 31yo mistress of nine years in Putney
๐Ÿ‘ฆLuca, their 8yo son

Constance Pinn, Emily's roommate

Richardson, Emily's peach and grey cat

Little Bilham, her other cat
๐Ÿ”Montague (Monty) Small, detective novelist

Locketts, his cottage
๐Ÿ’ƒSophie, his two-month-deceased pretty ex-actress wife

๐Ÿ”ซMilo Fane, his character
๐Ÿคก Edgar Demarnay, admirer of Sophie

๐Ÿ‘คMagnus Bowles 

Mrs Raines-Bloxham, elderly neighbor

๐Ÿ‘งKiki 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 

๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿ‘ฆ #trespass
๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ”

Excrucior, #dream ๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ’ญ
P02: Harriet Gavender (nee Derwent)

๐Ÿ‘ต๐Ÿ‘ฆ#dream ๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿฆ‡๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ˜ท

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

๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿค’#dream ๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ‰
P04: "'Where is Nastasia

๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿ‘ต๐Ÿ˜ท
P05: Montague Small was awakened

๐Ÿ”
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

๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ‘ต
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


Tuesday, September 29, 2020

O: The Black Prince (1973)

by 54yo Iris Murdoch

characters 830,123
words 150,768

chapters 64?

 

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1454 copies, 109 editions

 



 

Carpaccio's Dream of Saint Ursula

 

๐ŸŽฌ P. Loxias

loxias = Apollo as ambiguous oracle

๐Ÿ‘จBradley Pearson, 58yo retired taxman, author of three literary books

name coincidentally similar to VN's 1972 Hugh Person in Transparent Things?


๐Ÿ’ƒ Christian Evansdale, Bradley's weathy widowed noxious ex (marriage lasted 5yrs)
๐Ÿป Francis Marloe, Christian's broke brother, ex-medical
๐Ÿ›– Patara, seaside cottage rental
๐Ÿ“šArnold Baffin, prolific popular novelist, Bradley's longtime friend/protรฉgรฉ
๐Ÿ‘ฉRachel Baffin, his heavy housewife of 20+ years
๐Ÿ‘งJulian Baffin, their 20yo daughter
๐Ÿ‘œPriscilla Pearson Saxe, Bradley's materialistic 52yo sister
๐Ÿ‘žRoger Saxe, her successful husband
๐Ÿคฐ Marigold, Roger's 30yo pregnant mistress
๐Ÿ‘ฆ Oscar Belling, Julian's ex


(paragraph count)
O01(3): Editor's Foreword ๐ŸŽฌ

O02(15): Bradley Pearson's Foreword

O03(0): Now follows Bradley Pearson's Story

O04(88): Part One-- It might be most

O05(4): I pause here to say

O06(248): Arnold stared

homme moyen sensuel = man of average appetites

O07: It was now ๐Ÿ‘จ(๐Ÿป)๐Ÿ‘ง

O08: My dear Arnold

O09: At this point

O10: I opened the door

O11: Perhaps at this point

O12: My mother was very

O13: Marriage is a curious

O14: The next thing was

O15: I was drinking

O16: I was at Christian's

O17: In the end Rachel

O18: Now at last there

O19: One of the many

O20: "He cut down my magnolia

O21: It is customary

O22: That evening Priscilla

O23: "Where's Arnold?"

O24: Somehow or other

O25: "He knows you're

O26: As I now approach

O27: The following morning

O28: Part Two What it was

O29: The reader, especially

O30: Hartbourne asked after

O31: "Guess what I've got

O32: The division of one

O33: The restaurant at the top

O34: The next morning of course

O35: My dear Bradley

O36: Julian was holding

O37: I slept, I suppose

TIM = time

O38: "You don't quite

O39: I stood under

O40: When we try

O41: "What happened?"

O42: The door of the flat

O43: Part Three She had so much

O44: "Look, Bradley

O45: The absolute yearnng

O46: The next day the mist

O47: "What ages you've been

O48: Later on she was

O49: "What made you

O50: I was deeply asleep

O51: I awoke to a grey

O52: "Wait, Brad

O53: The world is perhaps

O54: Of course I felt

O55: I shall now advance

O56: "How are you feeling

O57: "Wake up, wake up

O58: I paid the taxi

O59: Postscript by Bradley

O60: Postscript by Christian

O61: Postscript by Francis

O62: Postscript by Rachel

O63: Postscript by Julian

O64: Editor's Postscript










Friday, September 18, 2020

N: An Accidental Man (1971)

 62 unnumbered chapters

characters 827,620

words 151,057

1115 copies, 79 editions 

[wikipedia]  [goodreads] [editions/covers]





Burne-Jones saint [N03]



☮️Ludwig Leferrier, American draft dodger

๐Ÿ‘ธ Gracie Tisbourne

Sebastian Odmore, Gracie's old boyfriend

๐Ÿ‘ฆRalph Odmore

Pitt’s Lodge, the Tisbournes' house in Kensington

Clara Ledgard Tisbourne, Gracie's mother

George 'Pinkie' Tisbourne, Gracie's father

๐Ÿ‘ขMitzi Ricardo 

๐Ÿ“ท Owen Secombe-Hughes, Mitzi's boss, a photographer

Karen Arbuthnot

Charlotte Ledgard, sister of Clara

Alison Ledgard, mother of Charlotte and Clara

Villa, Alison's house in Chelsea

๐Ÿ‘ฑPatrick Tisbourne, Gracie’s younger brother

๐Ÿ‘ณGarth Gibson Grey, Ludwig's best friend

Austin Gibson Grey, 40s, Garth's father

๐Ÿ‘ฝDorina, Austin's estranged wife, a charming schizophrenic

๐Ÿง™ Matthew Gibson Grey, Austin's successful older brother

Mavis Argyll, Dorina's older sister

๐ŸจValmorana, hostel run by Mavis

๐ŸŠBetty, Austin's first wife, drowned

๐Ÿ‘งHenrietta Sayce


N01: Gracie Darling Will
N02: Recession. Yes, said
N03: Grace Leferrier. It
N04: Austin Gibson Grey
N05: I haven’t an
N06: My dear Ludwig ๐Ÿ“ฎ
N07: May I see
N08: Suddenly everything was
N09: Dorina shrieked. The
N10: One should do
N11: It must be
N12: Ludwig
N13: Where are those ๐Ÿ—ซ
N14: My dear George ๐Ÿ“ฎ
N15: Austin Gibson Grey
N16: The privet hedge
N17: Hong Kong must
N18: There is nothing
N19: Matthew held in
N20: Dearest Hester ๐Ÿ“ฎ
N21: The waste land
N22: Norman Monkley and
N23: I like flies
N24: Dorina sat surrounded
N25: During luncheon at
N26: Garth sat beside
N27: Mavis lay back
N28: You will read
N29: I went there
N30: A packet of
N31: My dear Oliver ๐Ÿ“ฎ
N32: ‘Austin’s here,’ said
N33: Norman Monkley looked
N34: Is that Mavis ๐Ÿ—ซ
N35: So you are
N36: I’ve brought your
N37: We might go
N38: Matthew, just back
N39: ‘I’m going to
N40: ‘Austin hasn’t been
N41: Dearest Char ๐Ÿ“ฎ
N42: Matthew and Dorina
N43: Dear Mitzi
N44: Meanwhile Austin had
N45: Dearest Hester ๐Ÿ“ฎ
N46: Charlotte opened her
N47: In these days
N48: So you talked
N49: Dorina returned to
N50: Oh do stop
N51: I must look
N52: Her funeral had
N53: Ludwig sat alone
N54: I should think
N55: It must have
N56: What about this
N57: May I fill
N58: My dear Ludwig ๐Ÿ“ฎ
N59: Gracie lay back
N60: ‘Pinkie —’, said Clara
N61: He never even
N62: Matthew was doing

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