We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orlรฉans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
Weโre very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.
Oops, sorry about the wiki link - I always misspell Felix' name so was making sure
Yes, he'd lost his father early too. Perhaps if he'd had Sybilla's teaching and upbringing he'd have been better prepared for the real world.
But very few grasp the Crawford brain - Kate, Adam, maybe Alec and Danny to some degree. And Archie in his own way of course. Guzel? Not sure.
With Marthe he worships her, wants to give her the things she told him about not having in Istanbul, but doesn't understand that they are merely a means to an end, which is expanding her mind. She needs music, art, intellectual conversation - not to be put on a pedestal. He has no frame for that.
Losing his wife-to-be (his first love?) seems to have hurt him terribly. Gabriel manipulates him and uses his need for a straightforward good-v-evil world to get him to follow him. Yet he learns insight - seeing L with Khaireddin and taking opium he doesn't jump to conclusions but offers support.
His heart and his morals and his loyalty. He thinks clearly enough in military or business situations. But he's black and white and lives in Lymond's multicoloured and shaded world of politics and subterfuge. He has little experience of women and has no way of dealing with Marthe's complex psyche.
A bit harsh perhaps.
Saving Lymond from drowning at Zuara
Saving Lymond from drowning at the Authie
Offering to take care of Oonagh's body at Algiers.
It's women and booze that he gets wrong
And if you did, they'd probably Photoshop out the Wallace monument!
Yes - DK. When Lymond has to start drinking with Thomson.
Jerott:
"In Malta he had been moderate. Here in Scotland he had stopped drinking completelyโtaking no risks, it seemed clear, of being led into excess. It roused in Jerott, who had perfect self-discipline, an emotion of purest contempt."
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DK I think? It's when he notices Lymond is abstaining completey. I'll look it up after I've finished dinner.
Yeah. I've managed to get strength back in the main muscles after the rheumatic disorder, but the damage to the ligaments and meniscus is longer lasting. Frustrating when I used to walk everywhere and with mountains behind begging to be climbed.
I can recommend Madeira for stable mild and temperate temperatures. Flowers bloom all year round. I was there twice - at Xmas and at New Year, and it was very comfortable around 20-21C.
Unreliably unreliable. ๐
The misdirection isn't all in GK.
I always loved the way Dorothy slipped that line in. For a moment, you think you're maybe in narrator POV, then you realise you're in Jerott's, but the narrator is being sarcastic for the future. So clever.
While not whole
Yes it felt very much like that. Good fun whole you're still young but with my two ruptured ACLs I doubt I'd be able to handle them now.
I hope they've modernised the buses since I was there. They had lot of old 1950s looking things with wooden seats and hard suspension. Dirt cheap and a novelty but rather uncomfortable.
There's been many "inspired" by Lymond. Most are homages and are fine, but there was a period when there was a lot of straight plagiarism - both characters and plot. DD's agents had to set the lawyers on some of them.
Don't go at Xmas unless you really like smaltzy Xmas songs. Valetta and Slima have a loudspeaker on every lamp post. I had to escape to the archeological museum (excellent) to get away from it. Madeira was much more peaceful.
But he has perfect control ๐
Oh no, there lots more than four of us here! Your post was picked up by the #Dunnettcontent feed.
And watch out for the dark-haired Scottish knight - he can be a bit moody ;-)
Yes, that's certainly the key general point.
As I've said many times, I was lucky - I'd met Dorothy, seen the twinkle in the eye and the mischievious sense of humour, and was expecting misdirection and complexity from the start.
Wow, that's certainly *way* better quality than any other version I've ever heard.
Ahh, I've just realised that the Kindle page numbers don't match the originals. All my paper copies are back in Edinburgh, and although I have some scanned/OCR'd text and Word files they don't have page numbers so I may have the wrong scene. Was it actually the Ostrich you were referring to?
Oh dear. Then I fear she wouldn't ever have been a convert. I suppose you could have told her to start at the swordfight and then go back to the beginning. Still doubtful though.
I just can't understand why anyone can read the early interactions with Christian and with young Mary and not realise that there's a very different side to him and at least start to suspect that the trash stuff might just be a misdirection or an act.
Ahh, Richard and the glover - yes that's both funny and insightful. Richard is at his most human and sympathetic there.
The House of Niccolo has been translated into Italian. I'm told it was well done but I'm not sure of the current availability.
Dorothy loved visiting her publisher there - one of the bosses was a director of La Scala Milan and would get her the best box for opera performances.
