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Showing posts with label Greenmantle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greenmantle. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

A few more words about John Buchan's Greenmantle

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S everal of John Buchan's books have been featured and/or referenced in a variety of articles on here. I didn't expect to have anyth...
Monday, 20 May 2024

Another scene of interest from a Dion Fortune occult novel

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A s mentioned in the article inspired by The Demon Lover , there are scenes in Dion Fortune's occult novels that have particular relevan...
Sunday, 18 February 2024

Green shirts and green kirtles: some good and bad associations

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O scar Wilde's proposition that favouring the colour green  is a sign of creativity in individuals but of moral laxity and decadence in ...
Saturday, 11 November 2023

Something about John Buchan and the colour green

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A fter listing some connections and references to the colour green in the life and works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  and covering some simila...
Sunday, 11 December 2022

Two temptation scenes in Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood books

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T his article has something to say about what might be called the temptation of Lucy Carlyle, a major character in Jonathan Stroud's Loc...
Friday, 31 July 2020

Artemis Fowl and the demon cult leader: Part I

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I read the first three of Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl  fantasy novels when they were first published. I remembered them recently when compil...
Thursday, 2 April 2020

96 years of John Buchan’s Three Hostages

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The Three Hostages is the fourth in the series of John Buchan’s Richard Hannay adventures.  I t was first published in two instalments in ...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Diana Wynne Jones and the shortage of reading material

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D iana Wynne Jones is yet another writer who was a voracious reader as a child. Unfortunately, she never had nearly enough books to satisfy ...
Monday, 26 August 2019

100 years of John Buchan’s Mr Standfast

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T his day, A ugust 26th, is John Buchan’s birthday. This article marks the 144th anniversary of his birth. T his year,   2019,  is the 100...
Monday, 1 July 2019

103 years of John Buchan’s Greenmantle

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L ast year was the 103rd anniversary of the publication of John Buchan’s Thirty-Nine Steps ; 2019 is the 103rd anniversary of the first appe...
Sunday, 26 May 2019

Two small synchronicities earlier this week

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T here are several articles on here that describe some of the small synchronicities and coincidences I have experienced over the years. I...
Monday, 29 April 2019

Today is Rafael Sabatini’s birthday

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T he novelist Rafael Sabatini was born on this day, April 29th, in 1875 in Italy. I have always thought of Rafael Sabatini as a member ...
Sunday, 24 May 2015

Attacks by energy vampires: some details and theories

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I am recovering from a recent attack by an energy vampire. T he bad effects are wearing off; I have decided to post the details in the hop...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy: a major unseen influence

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O ut of all of the many works of Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy is the one that I like best.  I first discovered it at the a...