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A crystal ball is found among junk in a London street market. It soon transpires that people from the past are conjured up from the glass – never famous faces from history but lesser folk – those beyond ....the pale of life’s great fuss The ninety-nine per cent of us. Goliath’s batman is here, a minstrel who avoids decapitation by agreeing to write the music for the psalms... ....which hit the top of the Hebrew charts And made David king of the rhythmic arts. Napoleon is inevitable is such a gallery and we see him through the eyes of a pioneer psycho-analyst seconded to... ...St Helena, a piffling isle Where Boney was detained the while. But all he could discover was... ....a passive, dull and bourgeois void Unknown to Adler, Jung or Freud. Cleopatra’s Chiropodist puts in an appearance as does Lucrezia Borgia’s Confessor, Schopenhauer’s cleaning lady and the great Italia painters model for St. Sebastian’s model: For twenty years I wore no clothes; All I did was stand and pose As Sebastian, the Roman soldier, Riddled with arrows from shin to shoulder... A number of historical puzzled are unscrambled. The Mr. WH of Shakespeare’s sonnets is identified. He was there all the time, cryptically embedded in the dedication. Jack the Ripper reached his sorry depravity as the result of a curse put upon the man from Porlock who interrupted the drug-induced composition of Kubla Khan. The Trafalgar Square monuments reveal hidden histories and Vlad the Impaler’s aunt emerges as a formidable, if unsung, vampire. The facts behind Lincoln’s untimely death are exposed at last and so forth. Originally conceived as audition pieces for actors, these verses would not be out of places alongside Belloc’s Cautionary Tales and Don Marquis’ archy and metitabel. Format Kindle, Formato: Ebook Kindle, Rótulo: Fatima Ophel Books, Fatima Ophel Books, Grupo de produtos: eBooks, Publicado: 2013-08-12, Data de lançamento: 2013-08-12, Studio: Fatima Ophel Books.

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Crystal Ball Cameos is a collection of 21 verses which take as their premise which is retrospective rather than foreseeing. Characters from near or ancient history appear, none of them known to posterity, but usually with some connection with famous figures. Schopenhauer's charlady for instance, and King Croesus' accountant. Napoleon's psycho-analyst is here too, along with Lucrezia Borgia's confessor and Vlad the Impaler's Aunt Immacula. Certain historical and literary conundrums are solved, such as whether or not hieroglyphics employed the letter 'w' (see Cleopatra's chiropodist) and the identities of the Mr W.H. of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Unknown Soldier. Superman, Batman and Spiderman have a brother who missed the limelight as did two Saxon sailors who believe they started the Hundred years War. The Mayor of Sodom has a verse to himself as do Goliath's batman and a number of others among whom is the beggar with whom St Martin shared cloak: Who's that banging in the night, My bones a mess, my shroud a sight?It's not good manners interruptingCadavers quietly corrupting. Originally conceived as audition pieces for actors, these verses would not be out of places alongside Belloc's Cautionary Tales and Don Marquis' archy and metitabel.

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Crystal Ball Cameos is a collection of 21 verses which take as their premise which is retrospective rather than foreseeing. Characters from near or ancient history appear, none of them known to posterity, but usually with some connection with famous figures. Schopenhauer"s charlady for instance, and King Croesus" accountant. Napoleon"s psycho-analyst is here too, along with Lucrezia Borgia"s confessor and Vlad the Impaler"s Aunt Immacula. Certain historical and literary conundrums are solved, su... Crystal Ball Cameos is a collection of 21 verses which take as their premise which is retrospective rather than foreseeing. Characters from near or ancient history appear, none of them known to posterity, but usually with some connection with famous figures. Schopenhauer"s charlady for instance, and King Croesus" accountant. Napoleon"s psycho-analyst is here too, along with Lucrezia Borgia"s confessor and Vlad the Impaler"s Aunt Immacula. Certain historical and literary conundrums are solved, such as whether or not hieroglyphics employed the letter "w" (see Cleopatra"s chiropodist) and the identities of the Mr W. H. of Shakespeare’s sonnets and the Unknown Soldier. Superman, Batman and Spiderman have a brother who missed the limelight as did two Saxon sailors who believe they started the Hundred years War. The Mayor of Sodom has a verse to himself as do Goliath’s batman and a number of others among whom is the beggar with whom St Martin shared cloak: Who’s that banging in the night, My bones a mess, my shroud a sight? It’s not good manners interrupting Cadavers quietly corrupting. Originally conceived as audition pieces for actors, these verses would not be out of places alongside Belloc’s Cautionary Tales and Don Marquis’ archy and metitabel.Taal: Engels;Formaat: Epub zonder kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) ;Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ;ISBN10: 9898564083;ISBN13: 9789898564085; Engelstalig | Ebook.