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Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 21 (Addendum 8: Imagination)

By Michael Guest on December 17, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 20 (Addendum 7: A Dead Friend)

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Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 19 (Addendum 6: What if never born?)

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Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 18 (Addendum 5: Long Live the Ignorant!)

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Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 17 (Addendum 4)

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Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 16 (Addendum 3)

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A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 17. Vadalia Cardinalis

By Brian Armour on September 11, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

Vadalia Cardinalis is an insect now known as Rodolia Cardinalis due to an etymological reclassification, though its common name remains the same. It is a name that most know from a childhood rhyme, but Gunter keeps this his little secret, for revealing it would seriously damage the analogy […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 16. The Duplicate Tintype

By Brian Armour on August 28, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Settling into life in ‘Little Paris’, Louise is about to embark on another journey: one of discovery. Whereas Harry will struggle to gain any ground through his dedicated efforts, evidence of Montez’s treachery will almost fall into her lap. Readers will remember, in Chapter Three, George Ripley proudly […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 15. Winterburn’s Museum

By Brian Armour on August 14, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

An unopened powder canister bearing the stamp “Dupont Rifle Powder, 1852″ embedded in a tree branch is just one of the curious mysteries the reader will confront in this chapter. There are also alligators and snakes—lots of snakes; and as well, young girls smoking cigarettes. Louise, our courageous […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Mademoiselle Roxane

By Oliver Raven on August 7, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

The final tale in this series is about what Frenchmen are often believed to be most obsessed with: L’Amour. It might be all too easy to be cynical about any such tale written in the words of another time, but France still engages us, despite the subject. Oh, […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Monez: 14. Little Paris

By Brian Armour on August 1, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Following Louise’s outburst at Harry’s suggestion she spy for him, emotions are still up in the air. She remains stalwart, and Harry is flummoxed by her behavior. Following a request from the captain, Harry gets to strut his stuff once more with another young lady, much to the […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Mademoiselle de Doucine’s New Year’s Present

By Oliver Raven on July 24, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This delightful short tale gave me a few questions to ponder, never having given anyone a New Year present in all my life. Have I been an unknowingly awful and stingy miser? Heaven forbid, will I have to get enlightenment from, well if not a Capuchin monk, because […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 13. A Bundle of Letters

By Brian Armour on July 17, 2021 • ( 5 Comments )

The nexus of the Louise Minturn and Harry Larchmont characters is reached: their shared connection to Fernando Montez. This is all as the reader might expect from knowledge of Louise’s letters. However, Gunter wants to create a selective perspective of prior events involving Harry that the reader may […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Concerning an Horrible Picture

By Oliver Raven on July 10, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

THE WHICH WAS SHOWED IN A TEMPLE AND OF SUNDRY LIMNINGS OF A RIGHT PACIFIC AND AMOROUS SORT THE WHICH THE SAGE PHILEMON HAD HANGED IN HIS LIBRARIE AND OF A NOBLE PORTRAITURE OF THE POET HOMER THE WHICH THE AFORESAID PHILEMON DID PRIZE ABOVE ALL OTHER LIMNINGS […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 12. A Wildgoose Chase

By Brian Armour on July 7, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The last thought of Louise Minturn regarding Harry Larchmont as the previous chapter closed: ‘Does he wish the real object of his journey to the Isthmus to be unsuspected and unknown?’ This is the ‘latter idea’ to which Gunter refers when opening this chapter. A fitting beginning as […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Satan’s Tongue-Pie

By Oliver Raven on June 26, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

The image of a “Devil’s Pie” might appear to be a bit odd nowadays, but according to Barry Popik in”The Big Apple“, it apparently hails from the famous English priest Thomas Adams: “The Devil makes his Christmas-pyes from lawyers’ tongues and clerkes’ fingers”, attributing his original source to […]

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