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May 1, 2009 8:07 am
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At yesterday's NY meeting, the question was raised by Nick Birns about Waugh's alternative ending to Unconditional Surrender and AP's role. I could only...
I just reread this post and realize I forgot to mention an important fact without which the first paragraph makes little sense. In Waugh's novel Guy...
I just got a letter from Jim Tucker, an AP scholar who wrote THE NOVELS OF ANTHONY POWELL, among other things an early Spurling. Jim writes very funny (darkly...
Thanks for the tip-off John! Here's what Amazon UK has to say ... ... Full of Money by James Bill 192 pages Severn House Publishers Ltd (1 Sep 2009) Hardback,...
Where would AP's letter to Waugh about Unconditional Surrender be found? In AP's papers (if he kept a copy) but the original would be with Waugh's papers...
At long last the new AP website is live at www.anthonypowell.org. There isn't a lot of new content (yet) apart from John Gould's pages from his Dance classes...
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May 10, 2009 12:53 pm
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At our AP meeting in New York last weekend, Nick Birns read a paper comparing Flavia Stringham Wisebite to Julia Flyte Mottram. I have to confess I was...
I think Powell made a big mistake with Stringham. I don't say he shouldn't have killed him off but he was such a great character and the thing I find with...
Nick Booth
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May 10, 2009 8:19 pm
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Couldn't disagree more. Stringham is my favorite character in the series, so that every appearance is precious, but that doesn't mean that the books would be...
I'm so sorry to have missed Nick's presentation -- perhaps it will be published for all of us to enjoy sometime soon? On paper there are many parallels...
Jeanne Reed
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May 10, 2009 8:47 pm
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Manufacturing, as you put it, is what creative writers do as a means to whatever their ends are. I don't ask that the novelist's ends be distorted *just* for...
Nick Booth
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May 10, 2009 9:21 pm
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John writes: "thus I was unprepared, despite Nick's essay, for the parallels between Sebastian Flyte and Charles Stringham." I guesss can agree to "parallels"...
I found John Gould's post fascinating. As a reader, not author, I have become more and more aware that authors do dislike some of their characters. And when...
Michael Henle
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May 11, 2009 7:49 am
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I agree. My first vague thought about the Sebastian/Stringham question was: 'Well, Sebastian isn't very interesting, is he? And a bit of a pain in the arse.' ...
Nick Booth
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May 11, 2009 8:10 am
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... ...-ahem- no pun intended; honest, guv. Nick _________________________________________________________________ View your Twitter and Flickr updates from...
Nick Booth
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May 11, 2009 8:15 am
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... James, You make the same (or a similar) point as Christine Berberich of this parish in a paper given at the Oxford AP conference and included in its...
I'm delighted by the fine distinctions between Stringham and Sebastian various people have adumbrated (now there's an AP word!), most of which I agree with...
Sorry, I sent the posting below to the wrong address. Some of you may already have received it. Keith, Good job on new web site. I just gave it a test...
I feel a little silly writing this before re-reading Brideshead, but if I don't I'll have to do some actual work: an option which is distasteful to me. John...
If anyone has any articles, local reports, etc, for the next edition of the Powell Society 'Newsletter' please could they email them to me by Friday 15th May. ...
Stephen Holden
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May 12, 2009 2:15 pm
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Wouldn't Hooper be the matching character for Trimmer (rather than Widerpool)? ... From: aplist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:aplist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
Mark Hall
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May 12, 2009 2:15 pm
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... By the period in question, and for some decades before, aristocracy had come to be but one component of the 'upper classes' (note the plural). Nobility in...
In comparing Sebastian Flyte with Charles Stringham it seems important to recognise the difference in attitude of each narrator. Charles Ryder falls...
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May 13, 2009 2:54 pm
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Isn't this illustrative of a pervasive difference between Waugh and Powell (at least the Powell of Dance)? Almost all Waugh's major characters are to some...
In his May 10 message, Michael Henle says he distrusts Dance' to the extent that he sees AP being "self-indulgent in plotting more and more hideous ways to...
Edwin Bock
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May 13, 2009 7:01 pm
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I agree. The way 'ordinary' soldiers are handled in the Dance mid section compared with the neurasthenically snobbish way Waugh handles other ranks in Sword of...
Nick Booth
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May 13, 2009 8:17 pm
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Nick writes: The way 'ordinary' soldiers are handledin the Dance mid section compared with the neurasthenically snobbishway Waugh handles other ranks in Sword...
'Not being fit to shine someone's shoes' is just a colloquialism; I do not mean to gainsay Powell's gigantic talent. I don't think Waugh's books are entirely...
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