Post by whollygoats on Oct 18, 2022 15:22:00 GMT
Lately, I've been casting about for more reading material. By this, I mean more than just the PC screen; I mean real paper pages, and all....
So, I have undertaken to re-read all of Robertson Davies works and I decided to start with the Cornish trilogy. That means Rebel Angels, a tome I'd prolly read while I was still in university. I loved it then for its characters and language and it had been long enough since that I had forgotten entirely that there was a murder. Even when I stumbled in to the unexpected murder during the reading. There was also a fair amount more sexual kink than I remembered. I have finished it in much satisfaction and plunged ahead to the next in the triology, What's Bred In the Bone, a tale I remember enjoying immensely when I read it first. The second in the triology is basically the biography of the unifying character of the triology, one Francis Cornish, a Canadian eccentric patrician who'd made his own fortune and fame as a collector in the art world of the early to mid twentieth century, then died without direct heir and left a huge bequest of rarities and oddities to a small Canadian college in a Canadian university, under the management of his hand-picked team of three scholarly executors. The true character of the benefactor, an adept art forger, is revealed through the revelations of the entire triology. The third in the triology, The Lyre of Orpheus, is to be a tale of how those executors use their scholarly windfall from their benefactor. I do not remember it at all, so it will probably be the biggest reveal to me....after I relish the biography of a wiley art forger.
I'm not quite sure which of the trilogies will be next, but I suspect that Samuel Marchbanks and his running battle with his coal furnace will make a nice diversion for some early winter reading. After that remains the Salterton Trilogy, the Deptford Trilogy, and the Toronto Triology (such as it is...).
So, I have undertaken to re-read all of Robertson Davies works and I decided to start with the Cornish trilogy. That means Rebel Angels, a tome I'd prolly read while I was still in university. I loved it then for its characters and language and it had been long enough since that I had forgotten entirely that there was a murder. Even when I stumbled in to the unexpected murder during the reading. There was also a fair amount more sexual kink than I remembered. I have finished it in much satisfaction and plunged ahead to the next in the triology, What's Bred In the Bone, a tale I remember enjoying immensely when I read it first. The second in the triology is basically the biography of the unifying character of the triology, one Francis Cornish, a Canadian eccentric patrician who'd made his own fortune and fame as a collector in the art world of the early to mid twentieth century, then died without direct heir and left a huge bequest of rarities and oddities to a small Canadian college in a Canadian university, under the management of his hand-picked team of three scholarly executors. The true character of the benefactor, an adept art forger, is revealed through the revelations of the entire triology. The third in the triology, The Lyre of Orpheus, is to be a tale of how those executors use their scholarly windfall from their benefactor. I do not remember it at all, so it will probably be the biggest reveal to me....after I relish the biography of a wiley art forger.
I'm not quite sure which of the trilogies will be next, but I suspect that Samuel Marchbanks and his running battle with his coal furnace will make a nice diversion for some early winter reading. After that remains the Salterton Trilogy, the Deptford Trilogy, and the Toronto Triology (such as it is...).