Status Updates From The Cornish Trilogy

What's Bred In The Bone is a big improvement over The Rebel Angels

Delightful! And wise.

Finished the first!

On to #2, What's Bred In The Bone....

This is dreadful stuff. The first volume (Fallen Angels) is consistent with Davies status as a winner of the Leacock award. Volume Two (What's Bred in the Bone) is a biographical piece in which the author casts himself as the great Flemish Fraudster Hans Van Meegeren. Who knows what horrors await in Volume III (The Lyre of Orpheus).

Bloody good

Finished The Lyre of Orpheus Sep 3

Finished What's Bred in the Bone on Jul 31, 2016

Finished book 1, The Rebel Angels, on May 8

I knew where I was weak --article nine, which is silence, and article fifteen, concerning obedience. I couldn't hold my tongue and I disliked being disciplined by another...

Note: Everybody is clever enough for what God wants of him, and strong enough for what he is set to do, if not for what he would like to be'

'[...] I knew that really he was the cleverer one, though he had a great trouble putting words together.

he stood by me through a very rough time, and I am grateful.'

'The road to escape lay in self-knowledge; recognition of the spark!'

"they said a wise man could catch the wind in a net...

It was a metaphor for understanding what could be felt but not seen, [but of course] not many people understood."

"A man of great brilliance," said Hollier, "and an old friend of mine. Our work is more closely connected..."

"I suppose we are both trying to catch the wind in a net."

Of whom does this refer to? A single Self or other?

"Professor Lamotte was still recouping his powers after the assault on his gouty foot, and he was startled when McVarish leaned across him and said to Professor Burns: 'Roberta, have I ever shown you my penis-bone?'"

"Canada is an introverted country straining like hell to behave like an extravert. Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!"

"Canada is an introverted country straining like hell to behave like an extravert. Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!"

Christ once made a pun..

'Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church'

[Petras --a stone in Greek.
'Thou art rocky and upon this rock I shall build my church!']

People wouldn't get the point.. Wouldn't have church-goers rolling in the aisles two thousand years later, would it?!

His place of worship is steadfast and as timelessly rooted as the ground upon which one treads!

I keep laughing at how much of a complete wanker McVarish is, not to mention Parlabane. Adoring the writing style so far, and this seems to be the perfect mix of plot-driven and character-driven for me.

His curiosity was of a special intensity, and he bustled me in conversation so that I was apt to say more than I wanted to."

'[...] I put aside my academic pomps long ago, when I fell in the world and discovered that my only salvation lay in humility'

"what do you mean by character?"

'Guts. A good strong will to balance all the book-learning. An understanding ..'

'[...]by ordinary standards, a mess, but they had a coherence, and even a comfort, of their own. Once you stopped being offended by the muddle [...] they were oddly beautiful, like Hollier himself'

proverb 'what's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh'

woven around spirits & scholars --a woven world of mysticism, historical allusion & gothic fantasy.
Celebrating humanism in themes of religion, love, art & music.

'the lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld..'

For some reason, I read What's Bred in the Bone and The Lyre of Orpheus first.
I should have started at the beginning, which I'm doing now with The Rebel Angels. I'll have to reread the other two and get it all down in order.
I'm enjoying The Rebel Angels immensely.

For some reason, I read What's Bred in the Bone and The Lyre of Orpheus first.
I should have started at the beginning, which I'm doing now with The Rebel Angels. I'll have to reread the other two and get it all down in order.
I'm enjoying The Rebel Angels immensely.

Just finished book 1.

Two books down, and one to go.

This is such an enjoyable read. So many topics covered in the course of the tale. I'll be sorry when it comes to an end.

Finished book 1.

Rereading :-)

The Death Card

pretty good so far, very different from the Wheel of Time series I just finished