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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 7:17:48 GMT -5
"Fallen among Thieves" is described as an early country-house murder story, featuring the detective feats of John Harman. Clickà'Beckett is said to have written "half a dozen novels" in all, among which are "The Ghost of Greystoke Grange" (1877) and "The Mystery of Mostyn Manor" (1878), both described as "routine thrillers", but "Fallen among Thieves" is the only one that can be located at present. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 9:11:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 0:24:15 GMT -5
Upon looking at your list of editors of the Sunday Times kc we are drawn to wonder what it was about Harold Evans that gives his name such a resounding ring whereas none of the rest have anything of that kind about them at all. Sir HaroldPerhaps the exposure of our great Philby and the Crossman diaries. And we see that he left behind the shame of Thatcher's England in 1984 shortly before we ourself did. (We were of course obliged to attend the Amusements.)  |
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Post by ahinton on Mar 1, 2017 2:20:26 GMT -5
And we see that he left behind the shame of Thatcher's England in 1984 shortly before we ourself did. "We ourself"? Shouldn't that be either "I myself" or "we ourselves", depending on whether you alone or in the company of others did so at that time? Do you happen to know if Arthur William à Beckett might have been related to Sorabji's friend (and dedicatee of his important early piano piece Le Jardin Parfumé) Christopher à Becket Williams, even though he spelt "Becket" with just one "t"? ( see www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/57-uncategorised/215-henry-williamson-and-kit-williams-in-the-pyrenees-1929 ). |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 3:49:39 GMT -5
I don't know. But if one goes to Wikipedia and searches for à'Beckett australia one finds a multitude of politicians, doctors, cricketers, and so on. There was even an à'Beckett in my form at School, but he was large and fat, and of course far too young for Sorabji.
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Post by ahinton on Mar 1, 2017 5:44:52 GMT -5
I don't know. But if one goes to Wikipedia and searches for à'Beckett australia one finds a multitude of politicians, doctors, cricketers, and so on. There was even an à'Beckett in my form at School, but he was large and fat, and of course far too young for Sorabji. Far too young to be a friend of his, I assume you to mean - and rightly so, of course, since Christopher à Becket Williams' dates were 1890-1956 and so you would have to be very much older than I imagine you to be for him to have attended school contemporaneously with you; you would have had to be aged around 125 to have been to school with him and that's a greater age than the verifiable one of anyone known still to be alive! (notwithstanding his size and girth)... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 11:59:29 GMT -5
1984 was an interesting year for me, too, Sydney, although perhaps not in the way George Orwell once envisioned. Wikipedia - Nineteen Eighty-FourI suspect that Sydney is using the royal 'we', ahinton, as in 'we are not amused!' Research suggests that Queen Victoria did not say 'we are not amused'. Her diaries were apparently filled with the saying 'We were very much amused', but she never once said 'we are not amused'. So like Queen Victoria, ahinton, we were very much amused by Sydney Grew? On another point, Sydney, why have you placed an apostrophe between à and Beckett? Is that how Australian à’Becketts, like the large and fat one in your form at school, recorded their surnames? |
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Post by ahinton on Mar 1, 2017 15:18:32 GMT -5
1984 was an interesting year for me, too, Sydney, although perhaps not in the way George Orwell once envisioned. Wikipedia - Nineteen Eighty-FourI suspect that Sydney is using the royal 'we', ahinton, as in 'we are not amused!' Research suggests that Queen Victoria did not say 'we are not amused'. Her diaries were apparently filled with the saying 'We were very much amused', but she never once said 'we are not amused'. So like Queen Victoria, ahinton, we were very much amused by Sydney Grew? I cannot speculate on what Queen Victoria might have thought of any aspect of Sydney and the way in which he presents himself and his thoughts, whether or not her thoughts might have centred at any time upon his bizarre use of the first person plural, "royal" or otherwise and/or the extent to which it might at all have impinged upon her own use thereof, even if only in a positive athe than the better known negative context. On another point, Sydney, why have you placed an apostrophe between à and Beckett? Is that how Australian à’Becketts, like the large and fat one in your form at school, recorded their surnames? Only he can answer that, although whether or not he will or can remains to be read; in the meantime, Christopher à Becket William appears to have had to contend only with some people who sought without apparent authorisation to add a second "t" to his name rather than be bothered about this seemingly peculiar apostrophic use that might or might not turn out to be of specifically Antipodean origin... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 20:05:12 GMT -5
On another point, Sydney, why have you placed an apostrophe between à and Beckett? It is written that way on the first page of John Sutherland's Companion to Victorian Fiction (Longman 1988). We note also that when the name is capitalized the accent is absent. I take it to be to some extent similar to the use of the apostrophe in O'Grady, except that there the "O" is always large is it not.   Many in England (and elsewhere) love to make their names unusual. Think for example of the blurring of Vaughan and Williams. Think of all the odd spellings, hyphenations and absent capitalizations. Think of the "Sirs" even. It comes at bottom from the instinct of the criminal, and reveals their approach to society. Pure pseudery of course. The worst are those who attempt to force others to go through their fussy hoops of pseud-illegitimacies: the writing for instance of "Scots" rather than "Scotch". |
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Post by ahinton on Mar 2, 2017 5:42:07 GMT -5
Many in England (and elsewhere) love to make their names unusual. Think for example of the blurring of Vaughan and Williams. What blurring? Are you referring to the erroneous insertion of a hyphen between the two (albeit an error rarely made these days)? Think of all the odd spellings, hyphenations Well, yuou should know about those! the writing for instance of "Scots" rather than "Scotch". Scots are people. Scotch is whisky. People are not whisky. As I once put it to Ronald Stevenson, "Nielsen once said that "music is the sound of life". Whisky is the water of life. Is Stevenson's music the sound of whisky?"... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 13:10:25 GMT -5
Thank you very much indeed for the clarification.
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