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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: 11. An Exile from The Four Hundred

By Brian Armour on June 19, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Our narrator is back and quick to inform us that Miss Minturn has secluded herself in her stateroom in order to update her diary—as she has not been given the opportunity previously. In a slip of chronology this is imperative, in order to enlighten readers to events prior […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: A Good Lesson Well Learnt

By Oliver Raven on June 12, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Never having had a confessor, I found this tale a little difficult to appreciate at first. I’d heard of King Edward the Confessor of course. As a kid, I used to believe that he must have confessed a lot… My only direct experience with such a, to me, […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 10. A Chance Meeting At Delmonico’s

By Brian Armour on June 5, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Chance is the key word, and those readers who have been following the story will quickly relate to the proverb ‘two times lucky, three times a charm’. If Harry’s uncle hadn’t required a stenographer and collapsed mid-sentence, if in the course of the Great White Hurricane, Louise had […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Five Fair Ladies of Picardy, of Poitou, of Touraine, of Lyons, and of Paris

By Oliver Raven on May 29, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

A certain Brother Olivier Maillard’s sermon is recalled by a Capuchin monk, who describes it as “macaronic“. If macaroni is a pasta made without eggs, then what kind of text or speech could this be? One without a binding element such as proforms and antecedents? That could prove […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 9. The Angel of the Blizzard

By Brian Armour on May 18, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Louise Minturn continues to read past entries in her diary, specifically those of nine days previous, detailing her second encounter with Harry Larchmont. As in the first three chapters Gunter uses an historical event on a particular day to background action. At midnight March 11th, a storm known […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Brother Joconde

By Oliver Raven on May 15, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

France is of course not the only nation to have fought wars, harboured grudges and perpetuated stereotypical slurs against those whom we in Australia call the “Poms”. I needn’t even mention the Scots. Despite connections with the Royal Family, Germans have of course also had a somewhat difficult […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 8. The Stenographer’s Dream

By Brian Armour on May 8, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

A refreshing and dramatic change in the narrative treatment. Our narrator has disappeared into the history he has related for readers. Now Gunter uses the form of diary extracts as a literary device to introduce a new pivotal character: Miss Louise Minturn. Rather than the story continuing to […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: The Miracle of the Magpie

By Oliver Raven on May 1, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

While the previous chapter was about boasting, this one, ‘The Miracle of the Magpie’, which plays in the town of Le Puy-en-Velay in the beautiful Auvergne district of France, seems to be all about mocking. Mocking the beliefs of people “elbowing their way” to the place where they […]

A.C. Gunter’s Baron Montez: 7. “NO! BY ETERNAL JUSTICE!”

By Brian Armour on April 24, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

In her letter Jesse does not describe or elaborate on her dire predicament. It is only following the arrival of Larchmont’s brother, Harry, back in Paris for all to be revealed in personal dialogue between the two. Given the generous insights of our narrator, our good readers may […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Olivier’s Brag

By Oliver Raven on April 19, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Perhaps a word of warning about this story by Anatole France from the year 1909. The ending in particular might offend, so be prepared to make an allowance for attitudes in it being 112 years old—the original French chanson de geste eight centuries earlier than that. The story, […]

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