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Post by Dr Strange on Mar 22, 2021 16:42:14 GMT
However, E.F. Benson is another story. Or H.P. Lovestick Loveshaft Lovecraft.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 23, 2021 13:43:31 GMT
Jim Bryant - A French Farce: In the Tracks of M. R. James (Haunted Library, March 2021). Introduction A French Farce: In the Tracks of M. R. James Dates: 22 September - 9 October 1896 Notes on the transcriptionsI have a complaint about this. It's too short.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Mar 23, 2021 19:38:44 GMT
Hmmm... no sign of my contributor copy yet. Hopefully tomorrow or not long after.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 23, 2021 19:39:03 GMT
Darryl Jones - M. R. James: Towards a New Biography: In short, it sounds must-have. "To be very clear I am not in the business of posthumous psychological diagnosis." What Mr Jones does suggest is that his book may ultimately reveal a fuller, more complex, less "nice", and possibly even troubling MRJ than that we've become accustomed via previous biographies. No mention of either Freud or Jung, far as I can recall, just an assurance that, far as the author is concerned, MRJ's sexual orientation and political leanings are decidedly not "off limits." Jones' paragraphs relating to the brutality of the Victorian public school system are somehow even more horrific than Ronald Pearsall's chapter on same in Night's Black Angels: The Forms & Faces of Victorian Cruelty, which is not a claim I make lightly.
So when is it coming out?
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Post by Shrink Proof on Mar 23, 2021 20:28:29 GMT
Darryl Jones - M. R. James: Towards a New Biography No mention of either Freud or Jung, far as I can recall, just an assurance that, far as the author is concerned, MRJ's sexual orientation...(is)...decidedly not "off limits." So when is it coming out? Sigh. The first Freudian slip. And so it begins....
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Post by helrunar on Mar 23, 2021 22:25:01 GMT
Thanks for that laugh, Dr Shrink Proof! You are a gem.
cheers, H.
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Post by Dr Strange on Mar 24, 2021 2:29:22 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 24, 2021 14:34:53 GMT
On p.xxvi of his Introduction to his edition of MRJ's Collected Ghost Stories, Professor Jones states that "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" is "ultimately a tale of uncontrollable sexual terror, a quest which leads Mr. Somerton to this nightmare vagina, and an encounter which he barely survives.” I think I would have remembered that! This does not bode well for the biography. I have no doubt that it will be full of specious stuff like this to draw attention.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 24, 2021 14:53:38 GMT
I'm not at all sorry that I laughed at the Jones comment about Abbot "John Thomas." LOLOL!
Maybe he's going to take a somewhat more nuanced approach in the new book? One may hope.
cheers, H.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 24, 2021 14:54:28 GMT
"The Family Jewels of Abbot John Thomas" ... read aloud for your listening pleasure by Kenneth Williams. LOL!
H.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 24, 2021 15:05:40 GMT
"The Family Jewels of Abbot John Thomas" ... read aloud for your listening pleasure by Kenneth Williams. LOL! H. What the hell have I started this time!
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Post by helrunar on Mar 24, 2021 15:53:21 GMT
Yes Mr Horne, we're Bona Publishing with the Bona Edition of the Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James. How luvly it is to vada your dolly old eeks.
H.
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Post by Dr Strange on Mar 24, 2021 16:24:23 GMT
On p.xxvi of his Introduction to his edition of MRJ's Collected Ghost Stories, Professor Jones states that "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" is "ultimately a tale of uncontrollable sexual terror, a quest which leads Mr. Somerton to this nightmare vagina, and an encounter which he barely survives.” I think I would have remembered that! You may have repressed the memory.
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Post by Dr Strange on Mar 24, 2021 16:30:22 GMT
"The Family Jewels of Abbot John Thomas" ... read aloud for your listening pleasure by Kenneth Williams. LOL! H. What the hell have I started this time! I am sure there's a market for this sort of thing, maybe Oh Whistle and I'll Come On You for example.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 24, 2021 20:14:43 GMT
I am sure there's a market for this sort of thing, maybe Oh Whistle and I'll Come On You for example. You could be right ....
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