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Tom’s Host of Furious Fancies

07 Saturday Jul 2018

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Poetry

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Firedrake's Eye, Kipling, Patricia Finney, Stalky & Co., Tom o'Bedlam

I first came across Tom o’Bedlam via Kipling – in Stalky & Co., when Beetle (or was it M’Turk?) copies in his notebook the eerie and fantastical last verse:

With a host of furious fancies
Whereof I am commander,
With a burning spear and a horse of air,
To the wilderness I wander.
By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summoned am to tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
Methinks it is no journey.

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Portrait of the Artist

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

Posted by la Clarina in History, Stories

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christopher marlowe, George Bernard Shaw, Léon Daudet, Nat Cassidy, Patricia Finney, Robert Brustein, William Shakespeare

stunned_shakespeareIt strikes me how often fiction and theatre portray Will Shakespeare in the act of absorbing his materials rather than creating them.

No, really: the average fictional Shakespeare spends half his life jotting down, more or less metaphorically, everything he hears… Continue reading →

Perchance to read…

25 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Books

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Edward Rutherford, Georgette Heyer, Josephine Tey, Muriel Bradbrook, p. f. chisholm, Patricia Finney, Rafael Sabatini, Reading vacation

readerbooksHere we go again. Summer is back, and I am thinking about a Reading Week. As usual, I still don’t know whether I’ll manage it: work is rather intense, the revision is only a week away, and I have a short play to write… There is no question of going anywhere – but that’s all right if only I can get myself a week of blissful, uninterrupted reading. Why, at a pinch, even half a week would do very well.

When? No idea. We’ll see. Meanwhile, I’m hoarding books like there is no tomorrow. Let us see… Continue reading →

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