Showing posts with label Earthly Powers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earthly Powers. Show all posts
Friday, 11 December 2020

Why Earthly Powers is a Christmas read

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'Tis the season to be reading and again on this blog, we talk about Christmas in literature. You may remember that I once suggested to ...
Monday, 7 December 2015

Earthly Powers as a Christmas read

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As Christmas is coming, I am giving you a few suggestions to fit Yuletide 'Tis the season to be reading and all that. I don't know i...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Anthony Burgess in Montreal

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I found this in a newsagent on Mont-Royal Avenue. You can see here the French translations of Earthly Powers and Beard's Roman Women ...
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Monday, 1 July 2013

A bull of excommunication

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" I wonder what his archbishship is after. Perhaps he's delivering a bull of excommunication. In a gaudy gift wrapper of course. ...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Earthly Powers, the beer

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This is a quick post that is sort of Easter related (as I had promised here ). My readership knows of my admiration for Earthly Powers , t...
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Thursday, 6 December 2012

Saint Nicholas' Day

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Today is Saint Nicholas 's Day. Saint Nicholas is of course the prototype of Santa Claus, or his old name, before he became a chubby, jo...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

The incipit of Earthly Powers

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" It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come ...
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Saturday, 6 December 2008

A gruesome Santa Claus story

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This post is an English version of this one in French . So, in case you don't know, it is Saint Nicholas's Day today . He is now bet...
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