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W. Somerset Maugham: The Critical Heritage (1987)
by Anthony Curtis
W. Somerset Maugham
The Critical Heritage
Edited by Anthony Curtis and John Whitehead
Routledge, Hardback, 1987.
8vo. xviii+470 pp. Compilation, introduction, notes, bibliography and index by Anthony Curtis and John Whitehead.
First published, 1987.
Note on the selection and its arrangement
Liza of Lambeth
(September 1897, Fisher T. Unwin; September 1921, Doran)
1. Edward Garnett, reader's report, January 1897
2. Unsigned review, Academy, September 1897
3. Jane H. Findlater, essay, National Review, May 1900
The Making of a Saint
(May 1898, L.C. Page, Boston; June 1898, Fisher T. Unwin)
4. Unsigned review, Literature, August 1898
5. Unsigned review, Academy, September 1898
(June 1899, Fisher T. Unwin; no American edition)
6. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, June 1899
7. Unsigned review, Academy, July 1899
Mrs Craddock
(November 1902, Heinemann; 1920, George H. Doran)
8. Unsigned review, Academy and Literature, November 1902
9. A. St John Adcock, review, Bookman (London), December 1902
The Merry-Go-Round
(September 1904; no American publication edition)
10. Unsigned review, Academy and Literature, October 1904
11. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, October 1904
The Land of the Blessed Virgin
(January 1905, Heinemann; July 1920, Knopf)
12. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, March 1905
13. Virginia Woolf, unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, May 1905
The Bishop's Apron
(February 1906, Chapman and Hall; no American edition)
14. 'The Baron de B[ook]-W[orms]' [Sir F.C. Burnand], review, Punch, February 1906
The Magician
(November 1908, Heinemann; February 1909, Duffield)
15. 'Oliver Haddo' [Aleister Crowley], review, Vanity Fair (London), December 1908
16. Unsigned review, New York Times, February 1909
A Man of Honour (February 1903)
17. E. K. Chambers, review, Academy and Literature, February 1903
18. Max Beerbohm, review, Saturday Review (London), March 1904
Lady Frederick (October 1907)
19. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, October 1907
20. Reginald Turner, review, Academy, November 1907
Jack Straw (March 1908)
21. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, March 1908
22. Max Beerbohm, review, Saturday Review (London), April 1908
Mrs Dot (April 1908)
23. Unsigned review, Illustrated London News, May 1908
24. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, May 1908
The Explorer (June 1908)
25. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, June 1908
26. Max Beerbohm, review, Saturday Review (London), June 1908
Penelope (January 1909)
27. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, January 1909
28. William Archer, review, Nation (London), January 1909
Smith (September 1909)
29. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, October 1909
30. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, October 1909
The Tenth Man (February 1910)
31. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, February 1910
Grace (Landed Gentry) (October 1910)
32. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, October 1910
Loaves and Fishes (February 1911)
33. Unsigned review, Times, February 1911
34. A.A. Milne, review, Punch, March 1911
The Land of Promise
(December 1913 [New Haven, Conn.]; February 1914 [London])
35. Unsigned review, New York Times, December 1913
36. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, March 1914
37. S.O., review, English Review, May 1914
Of Human Bondage
(August 1915, Doran, Heinemann)
38. Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, August 1915
39. Gerald Gould, review, New Statesman, September 1915
40. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, August 1915
41. Theodore Dreiser, review, New Republic, December 1915
42. Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, essay, New York Times, January 1925
The Moon and Sixpence
(April 1919, Heinemann; July 1919, George H. Doran)
43. Katherine Mansfield, review, Athenaeum, May 1919
44. Unsigned review, Saturday Review (London), May 1919
45. Maxwell Anderson, review, Dial, November 1919
The Trembling of a Leaf
(September 1921, George H. Doran; October 1921, Heinemann)
46. Louise Maunsell Field, review, New York Times, November 1921
47. Unsigned review, Saturday Review (London), November 1921
48. Rebecca West, review, New Statesman, November 1921
On a Chinese Screen
(October 1922, George H. Doran; November 1922, Heinemann)
49. Louise Maunsell Field, review, New York Times, February 1923
50. Gerald Gould, review, Saturday Review (London), January 1923
The Painted Veil
(March 1925, George H. Doran; April 1925, Heinemann)
51. Unsigned review, New York Times, March 1925
52. P.C. Kennedy, review, New Statesman, May 1925
53. Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, May 1925
The Casuarina Tree
(September 1926, Heinemann, Doran)
54. L.P. Hartley, review, Saturday Review (London), September 1926
55. Edwin Muir, review, Nation and Athenaeum, October 1926
56. Henry Albert Philips, review, New York Evening Post, October 1926
(March 1928, Heinemann, Doran)
57. Edward Shanks, review, London Mercury, May 1928
58. D.H. Lawrence, review, Vogue, July 1928
59. Unsigned review, New York Times, April 1928
The Gentleman in the Parlour
(February 1930, Heinemann; April 1930, Doubleday Doran)
60. Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, March 1930
61. Bellamy Partridge, review, New York Herald Tribune, April 1930
62. Arthur Colton, Saturday Review of Literature (New York), June 1930
Cakes and Ale
(September 1930, Heinemann; October 1930, Doubleday Doran)
63. Ivor Brown, review, Observer, October 1930
64. Evelyn Waugh, review, Graphic, October 1930
65. Leslie A. Marchand, review, New York Times, October 1930
Six Stories Written in First Person Singular
(September 1931, Doubleday Doran, Heinemann)
66. Lee Wilson Dodd, review, Saturday Review of Literature (New York), October 1931
67. L.A.G. Strong, review, Spectator, October 1931
The Narrow Corner
(November 1932, Heinemann, Doubleday Doran)
68. Anne Armstrong, review, Saturday Review (London), November 1932
69. Florence Haxton Britten, review, New York Herald Tribune, November 1932
Ah King
(September 1933, Heinemann; November 1933, Doubleday Doran)
70. William Plomer, review, Spectator, September 1933
71. Florence Haxton Britten, review, New York Herald Tribune, November 1933
Caroline (The Unattainable) (February 1916)
72. J.T. Grein, review, Sunday Times, February 1916
Our Betters
(March 1917 [New York]; September 1923 [London])
73. Unsigned review, New York Evening Post, March 1917
74. Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman, October 1923
Caesar's Wife (March 1919)
75. Unsigned review, Times, March 1919
76. William Archer, review, Weekly Review (New York), June 1919
Home and Beauty (Too Many Husbands)
(August 1919 [Atlantic City, London])
77. Aldous Huxley, review, Athenaeum, September 1919
78. Alexander Woollcott, review, New York Times, October 1919
The Unknown (August 1920)
79. Unsigned review, Times, August 1920
80. Frank Swinnerton, review, Nation (London), August 1920
The Circle (March 1921)
81. Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman, March 1921
82. W.J. Turner, review, London Mercury, April 1921
East of Suez (September 1922)
83. James Agate, review, Saturday Review (London), September 1922
84. Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman, October 1922
The Constant Wife
(November 1926 [Ohio]; April 1927 [London])
85. Robert Benchley, review, Life, December 1926
86. Ivor Brown, review, Saturday Review (London), April 1927
The Letter (February 1927)
87. Unsigned review, Times, February 1927
88. Ivor Brown, review, Saturday Review (London), March 1927
The Sacred Flame
(November 1928 [New York]; February 1929 [London])
89. J. Brooks Atkinson, review, New York Times, November 1928
90. J.T. Grein, review, Illustrated London News, February 1929
The Bread-Winner (September 1930)
91. Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman, October 1930
92. J.B. Priestley, review, Saturday Review of Literature (New York), November 1930
For Services Rendered (November 1932)
93. Peter Flemming, review, Spectator, November 1932
94. J.T. Grein, review, Illustrated London News, November 1932
Sheppey (September 1933)
95. Desmond MacCarthy, review, New Statesman, September 1933
96. J.T. Grein, review, Illustrated London News, September 1933
East and West
(August 1934, Doubleday Doran)
(Altogether (August 1934, Heinemann))
97. Louis Kronenberger, review, New York Times, August 1934
98. Raymond Mortimer, review, New Statesman and Nation, August 1934
99. Graham Greene, review, Spectator, August 1934
Don Fernando
(June 1935, Heinemann; July 1935, Doubleday Doran)
100. Graham Greene, review, Spectator, June 1935
101. Raymond Mortimer, review, New Statesman and Nation, June 1935
102. Terence Holliday, review, New York Herald Tribune, July 1935
103. Osbert Sitwell, review, London Mercury, September 1935
(February 1936, Doubleday Doran; March 1936, Heinemann)
104. Florence Haxton Britten, review, New York Herald Tribune, February 1936
105. Unsigned review, Times, March 1936
(March 1937, Doubleday Doran, Heinemann)
106. Bernard DeVoto, review, Saturday Review of Literature (New York), March 1937
107. Elizabeth Bowen, review, New Statesman and Nation, March 1937
The Summing Up
(January 1938, Heinemann; March 1938, Doubleday Doran)
108. Montgomery Belgion, review, Criterion, 1938
109. Graham Greene, review, Spectator, January 1938
110. Stephen Vincent Bennet, review, Saturday Review of Literature (New York), April 1938
111. Malcolm Cowley, review, New Republic, March 1938
Christmas Holiday
(February 1939, Heinemann; October 1939, Doubleday Doran)
112. Evelyn Waugh, review, Spectator, February 1939
113. Richard A. Cordell, review, Saturday Review of Literature (New York), October 1939
Books and You
(March 1940, Heinemann, Doubleday Doran)
114. Lorine Pruette, review, New York Herald Tribune, April 1940
The Mixture as Before
(June 1940, Heinemann; July 1940, Doubleday Doran)
115. V.S. Pritchett, review, New Statesman and Nation, June 1940
116. Iris Barry, review, New York Herald Tribune, July 1940
Up at the Villa
(April 1941, Doubleday Doran; May 1941, Heinemann)
117. Morton Dauwen Zabel, review, Nation (New York), May 1941
118. Pamela Hansford Johnson, review, Books of the Month, June 1941
The Hour Before the Dawn
(June 1942, Doubleday Doran; no English edition)
119. Unsigned review, Nation (New York), July 1942
120. R. Ellis Roberts, review, Saturday Review of Literature (New York), June 1942
The Razor's Edge
(April 1944, Doubleday Doran; July 1944, Heinemann)
121. Joseph Warren Beach, review, New York Times, April 1944
122. Diana Trilling, review, Nation (New York), May 1944
123. Kate O'Brien, review, Spectator, July 1944
124. Cyril Connolly, review, New Statesman and Nation, August 1944
Then and Now
(May 1946, Heinemann, Doubleday)
125. V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, review, Spectator, May 1946
126. Edmund Wilson, review, New Yorker, June 1946
Creatures of Circumstance
(July 1947, Heinemann, Doubleday)
127. Olivia Manning, review, Spectator, August 1947
128. Charles Lee, review, New York Times, July 1947
(August 1948, Heinemann; October 1948, Doubleday)
129. Paul Bloomfield, review, Manchester Guardian, August 1948
130. Orville Prescott, review, New York Times, October 1948
Great Novelists and Their Novels (September 1948, Winston)
(Ten Novels and Their Writers (October 1954, Heinemann))
131. John W. Aldridge, review, Saturday Review of Literature (New York), October 1948
132. Noel Annan, review, New Statesman and Nation, November 1954
A Writer's Notebook
(October 1949, Heinemann, Doubleday)
133. Charles Morgan, review, Spectator, October 1949
134. V.S. Pritchett, review, New Statesman and Nation, October 1949
135. W.H. Auden, review, New York Times, October 1949
136. S.N. Behrman, review, New Yorker, October 1949
The Vagrant Mood
(October 1952, Heinemann; December 1953, Doubleday)
137. Sir John Squire, review, Illustrated London News, November 1952
138. Christopher Morley, review, New York Times, April 1953
Points of View
(November 1958, Heinemann; 1959, Doubleday)
139. Frank Kermode, review, Manchester Guardian, November 1958
140. Karl G. Pfeiffer, review, New York Herald Tribune, May 1959
141. J.P. Collins, essay, Bookman (London), October 1919
142. H.E. Bates, from The Modern Short Story, 1941
143. Sewell Stokes, essay, Theatre Arts (New York), February 1945
144. Unsigned leading article, Times Literary Supplement, January 1954
145. Unsigned leading article, New York Times, January 1954
146. John Raymond, review, New Statesman and Nation, January 1954
147. J.D. Scott, review, Spectator, January 1954
148. Christopher Isherwood, from Great English Short Stories, 1957
149. Walter Allen, tribute, New York Times, January 1964
150. Cyril Connolly, obituary, Sunday Times, December 1965
Select Bibliography
* In the table of contents the dates placed in brackets against titles are those of first publication in the case of books or first production in the case of plays. Two dates against any item indicate publication or production in both London and New York.
A.C. & J.W., Note on the selection and its arrangement.
I have added myself the publishers, the dates of few First American editions and corrected several minor slips, for the sake of clarity, completeness and conscientiousness, respectively. A.A.
I am notorious for making promises and not keeping them. There, I have just broken another one. Once I have promised to myself that there is one and only one book entirely dedicated to Somerset Maugham which I would never read: volume in The Critical Heritage series. When I am wrong, I say I'm wrong.
I was wrong about that book. Of course it is full of completely pointless stuff ranging from vacuous and flippant pieces to acrimonious ranting and malicious tirades. For students of literature eager to study the critical reception Maugham received during his lifetime, this book is indispensable. The common mortals interested in Maugham's personality and deeper appreciation of his work will find very little in these 470 pages they don't already know – provided that they have read carefully a good deal of Maugham, of course.
But, oh boy, what a fun to read!
But business first!
I daresay a decisive factor in my acquiring this book were the names of the editors. Both Anthony Curtis and John Whitehead are world renowned Maugham buffs for whom I have a lot of respect; indeed, for Mr Curtis this respect is mingled with something very much like admiration. That's saying a great deal – because about almost all of their colleagues in the field of literary criticism I have nothing but contempt.
Both Mr Curtis and Mr Whitehead have written critical studies of Maugham's complete oeuvre: the brilliant The Pattern of Maugham (1974) and the decent Maugham: A Reappraisal (1987), respectively; the latter might indeed have been partly stimulated by Mr Whitehead's editorial work on this volume for it was first published in the same year. All Maugham lovers also know, and should be grateful for, that Mr Whitehead was the man who compiled, edited and introduced the priceless collection of uncollected writings A Traveller in Romance (1984) which consists of 65 pieces spanning 63 years of Maugham's life that had never before been available in book form.
So when it comes to Somerset Maugham these gentlemen know pretty well what they're doing. There is no reason to suppose that they did not make the best of a really bad job when they chose 150 pieces out of the 2355 as listed in Sander's bibliography of writings about Maugham. They certainly achieved a very pleasant degree of completeness: apart from pamphlets and unpublished/unproduced plays, almost every single book and play Maugham ever published during his lifetime has at least one review reprinted here.
There are several omissions of course, but none of them is terrible. Some early novels like The Hero (1901) and The Explorer (1908), or rather obscure plays like The Landed Gentry (written and produced in 1910), are omitted; and so are Maugham's exercise in pure propaganda France at War (1940) or his closest to autobiography work, Strictly Personal (1941), but they don't in the least add to or change the general pattern of Maugham's stupendous output.
Having praised, with commendable moderation I hope, the editors of this volume, it will come as absolutely no surprise to note that the best part of it is the long introduction by them. It has a few exasperating points, to be sure, but it also has quite a number of perceptive ones. The remark for which I should like to thank warmly Messrs Curtis and Whitehead is their blunt statement that during his life Maugham was by far his own best critic, and that those who wrote reviews of his books often tended to be superficial. Or in their own words:
In the first place, during his lifetime the best critic of his work was Maugham himself – in The Summing Up, the prefaces to the collected editions and elsewhere. He was under no illusions as to its quality or value, appraising it coolly and judiciously; whereas reviewers tended to be erratic, superficial or merely prejudiced.
Nor do the editors make any bones that some of the most notorious, and scathing, reviews Maugham received from fellow writers were obviously motivated more by personal dislike than by anything else. On the whole, the introduction is an excellent summary of Maugham's vast literary output during the six decades of his writing career and especially how the critical opinion towards him changed through the years: from the promising reviews of the young Maugham, through the almost unanimous praise of the Far Eastern stories and non-fiction works of his middle period, until the Grand Old Man of Letters phase late in his life.
The material is beautifully arranged in partly chronological, partly thematic way, and one can easily find any specific book or play one is looking for. The editors have supplied all contributors, from the most famous to the most obscure, with short introductory notes so that one should know whom one's dealing with. Most of Maugham's books and plays, too, have short and informative notes which put them in the right context of Maugham's life and career.
Only a few times did Messrs Curtis and Whitehead write pure nonsense in this admirable introduction of theirs. Their claim that Maugham explored very different themes in his plays than in his non-dramatic works is bogus; not surprisingly, the themes in question are not mentioned. The statement that Maugham was partly to blame about the poor quality of the contemporary criticism of his works is positively ludicrous; the editors' argument is that he deliberately treated many ''sacred cows'' like religion, class and sexual morality in a disrespectful way. He certainly did, but what this has to do with the literary criticism I still fail to see.
Finally, the well-known tale how much Maugham resented his critics is here, too. It is so often encountered in the literature about the great writer that it has become almost a cliché, and a largely fictional one at that. Maugham sure cared for criticism more than he often confessed; there is quite enough evidence that he did read reviews of his works and he read them carefully. But that proverbial resentment that he is supposed to have felt for the critics is like his own personal unhappiness: largely a myth which rests on a very tiny piece of evidence. I have a notion that this resentment was created by the critics themselves in order to augment their own importance because they had the uneasy feeling that Maugham never took them very seriously; so was Maugham's personal unhappiness probably invented by people who were offended that they alone should be unhappy and naturally thought that the others, especially the successful ones, should be unhappy too. As usual, Maugham himself summarised the matter more brilliantly than anybody else:
I have been much praised and much blamed. Though I have been elated by the praise and cast down by the blame I have never let either disturb me in my chosen course. I should have been very willing to learn from the many criticisms of my work that I have read, but I have not found them very helpful. I suppose it is asking too much from a critic, who is often hurried and always ill-paid, that he should take the trouble to indicate an author's faults in such a way that he may be enabled to correct them. Perhaps my critics never thought it worth while to make the attempt; perhaps they had not the capacity.[1]
Now I come to the funny part, and the greatest fun most certainly are the famous and so often quoted reviews by Katherine Mansfield of The Moon and Sixpence and by D. H. Lawrence of Ashenden, as well as the legendary with its viciousness attack by Edmund Wilson on Then and Now and Maugham in general. The very fact that so many biographers thought such amazingly crappy stuff worth quoting is amusing. Reading these pieces is downright hilarious. They are so obviously motivated by personal animosity that one must be entirely devoid of mental resources to take them seriously. But it must be a dullard he who fails to be entertained by such stupendous distortion, outstanding ability to miss the point, and strenuous striving to fit everything into the world of one's own prejudices.
In the case of D.H. Lawrence the problem seems to have been Maugham's wealth, as revealed in his letters, and his popularity with the general reading public, not to mention his readability, probably was the lump in the throats of both Miss Mansfield and Mr Wilson. At least in the first two cases, it is saying a great deal that both The Moon and Sixpence and Ashenden are now considered classics; indeed, the latter was probably Maugham's most influential book since it became the foundation of the whole spy genre, the ''Bond, James Bond'' stuff included.
I should also like to mention another detail that is often badly neglected. Whatever Maugham thought of D.H. Lawrence or Katherine Mansfield, or their shameful ''reviews'', he did think well enough of them to include their work in his anthologies. Short stories by Miss Mansfield are to be found in all of them: The Traveller's Library (1933), Tellers of Tales (1939) and Great Modern Reading (1943). So, indeed, are works by Mr Lawrence, short stories in the first two books and two letters in the last one, even though The Traveller's Library was published just five years after his despicable ranting about Ashenden.
Maugham may well have had harsh words about both Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence, though far less vicious than their rambling, but in the selections about his anthologies he showed himself as a remarkably disinterested person. Now that is not something you often find in literary circles. Would Miss Mansfield or Mr Lawrence have included in their anthologies, had they compiled any, works of Somerset Maugham? I don't think so.
But the case of Edmund Wilson is pure pathology of human behaviour. Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence cannot hold a candle to such bitterness, viciousness, malice and pure hatred. Admittedly, Maugham's late historical novel Then and Now (1946) is not among his best creations (though I do think it's pretty close to them), but still: ''one of the most tasteless and unreadable books'', ''one of the less brilliant contributions to a prep-school magazine'', etc., etc. Mr Wilson also deftly used the opportunity to degrade Maugham's whole literary position reaching the absolute peak of deliberate perversity with this unforgettable description:
...half-trashy novelist, who writes badly, but is patronized by half-serious readers, who do not care much about writing.[2]
This from one of America's leading men of letters! I wonder whom I should be more sorry about: Mr Wilson himself or America as a whole. Trying to refute Mr Wilson's accusations obviously means nothing more than debasing myself to his own level. His motives are quite irrelevant, too. What should be stressed, though, is his competence in the matter, or lack of such indeed. Apparently, he later confessed that he had never read Of Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale and The Razor's Edge[3], not to mention that he read some of Maugham's short stories only after receiving many angry letters from Maugham fans – and only to dismiss them as ''magazine commodities''. But the case with the novels really passes belief. If that is true, Mr Wilson's stature as one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century may well be in need of the same treatment as that of Eduard Hanslick as one of the leading musical critics of the nineteenth: thorough revision.
Now, if you are a literary critic and if you are going to evaluate a writer's career, let alone launch a scathing assault on him, the least you must do is to read carefully his complete works, even the most immature and obscure ones. Unless you're ready to do that, you have no right to write a single word about the author in question, let alone to dismiss contemptuously his literary position. It is tragic that so many people would later accept Mr Wilson's invective almost as a gospel, including his description of Maugham's writing style as ''a tissue of clichés''. I have never been able to accept it as such, and I would challenge anybody to present to me another writer's style which has so high a degree of uniqueness, clichés or no clichés, not to mention lucidity, simplicity, insight and power.
Yet, such unintentionally hilarious reviews are important historical documents one should be aware of, even if only to laugh one's head off. So is the piece, unfortunately omitted from this collection, that appeared in the New York World and gave the now legendary description of Philip Carey's obsession as ''the sentimental servitude of a poor fool''. Among the fascinating bits of literary history, here is the glowing review of Theodore Dreiser which is supposed to have been an important factor in establishing Of Human Bondage (1915) as a classic; for all its effusive adulation, not only does it make a pleasant read, but it does have several unusually shrewd moments.
Another review that, quite unintentionally, went on to made literary history is the one in the Times Literary Supplement (August 12, 1915) which described Philip Carey as a hero who was ''so busy yearning for the moon that he never saw the sixpence at his feet''. So much did Maugham like the description that he called his next novel The Moon and Sixpence (1919), though the title is much less appropriate to Charles Strickland than it is to Philip Carey, as the perspicacious editors rightly observed. Likewise, Maugham loved so much Mr Maugham's Mixture as Before, the disparaging review of his short story collection Cosmopolitans (1936) that he – well, he named his next collection The Mixture as Before (1940), graciously acknowledging in the Foreword his debt to the unknown reviewer's acumen. This particular review is also one the most stupendously ridiculous ever written about Maugham's work. It is downright mind-boggling how the reviewer could describe 29 very short stories the ''mixture as before'' when Maugham's five previous collections consisted of six very long short stories each. No wonder that the review is unsigned.
Much more serious and useful is Raymond Mortimer's review of Don Fernando (1935) which prompted Maugham to do something exceptional: to revise a book in order to improve it because of constructive criticism. It must be added, though, that Desmond MacCarthy's review of The Summing Up (1938), unfortunately omitted here, also played role in this revision.
Unequally important historically, and excruciatingly dull and tedious as well, is the review of Aleister Crowley himself, certainly included here as some kind of historical curiosity rather than for any intrinsic value. Apparently the charlatan was so outraged to recognise himself as a chief source for the main character in The Magician (1908), that he decided to set the record straight by reviewing the book for Vanity Fair under the name of this very character: Oliver Haddo. The review, if it may be called thus at all, is one of the longest in the book and consists almost entirely of comparing quotes and showing quite convincingly that Maugham shamelessly plagiarized passages from several great discourses on black magic and other stuff of similarly childish nature. As if it mattered!
Another charming piece which every biographer of Maugham quotes, but it's really nice to read in its entirety, is Edward Garnett's reader's report of A Lambeth Idyll, a working title of Maugham's first novel which he wrote as a 23-year old medical student and which was later published as Liza of Lambeth. Should Garnett's report in January 1897 not have been so positive, Maugham's debut novel might not have appeared under the printers of Fisher T. Unwin later on the same year and God knows how Maugham's life might have developed. He would probably have gone into the medical profession, though it is inconceivable that he would have remained there for very long; his compulsion to write was much too strong for that. Certainly, however, Maugham would have become a different writer, perhaps very different, perhaps not; he may again have become famous or he may have remained obscure until the end of his life. Tantalising speculations. But aside from such futile fantasy games and the indisputable historical significance of many pieces, there is indeed very little to admire here.
Reading a review here and there throughout this volume, I cannot but be struck how incredibly superficial most of these pieces are. It is very seldom that one can find something fresh, insightful or perceptive in them; for the most part they are, to use Mr Wilson's phrase in a somewhat different context, a tissue of clichés. Typical example is the review of First Person Singular (1931) written by one Lee Wilson Dodd and published in Saturday Review of Literature (New York, 17 October 1931). He starts with the assertion that Maugham is ''the most competent'' of writers and he never tires of harping on this profound observation until the end of his review. He doesn't even mention the titles of four of the six stories in the collection.
Another outstanding review is the one by Olivia Manning of Maugham's last short story collection, Creatures of Circumstance (1947), which appeared in Spectator (August 1947) and runs to the remarkable length of one paragraph of exactly six lines. It tells us that these fifteen stories are mere entertainment but those who don't find them so are indeed hard to entertain. How could one help being diverted, with a condescending smile now and then, when reading such charming inanity?
It is a wonder that the unsigned reviews are not more, though there are quite a few of them. It seems that the despicable practice of writing a review without having the guts to put your name under it was very popular in the early (and not so early) twentieth century. It is amusing to reflect about the motives that might have been behind this anonymity in, say, so highbrow a magazine as Athenaeum. Were they proud enough of their reviewers to stand by them regardless of their names? Or were they too ashamed of them to even mention their names?
Surprisingly or not, there is on the whole a good deal of positive criticism among the reviews, sometimes even unabashed praise; not surprisingly at all, it is exactly as trite, superficial and useless as the negative one; only it is less amusing, and it gets tedious more quickly. There is also a good deal of criticism which is simply too dull to be amusing, the pretentiousness, pomposity and priggishness of Ivor Brown being an excellent example in this case; I no longer wonder he made so big a hash of so small a book as Maugham's slight portrait in the International Profiles series (1970).
Then there are other pieces, quite a number of them indeed, which are so ridiculously preposterous that one's pleasure is almost spoiled. Wonderful examples here are Frank Swinnerton's bitterness towards Maugham's popular success (remarked by the editors) and his completely nonsensical whining about Maugham's play The Unknown as well as Malcolm Cowley's ''review'' of The Summing Up which assumes the form of whiny complaint why Maugham never wrote another novel as great as Of Human Bondage. Needless to say, the obvious inanity of the statement, and the even more idiotic one that Maugham was ''separated by success from the circles that gave him his best subjects'', are the best possible examples for the highly detestable intellectual snobbishness of the literary critics and their truly pathetic inability to appreciate what they don't naturally like.
Fortunately, almost all of the reviews are admirably short. In one sentence, The Critical Heritage volume dedicated to Somerset Maugham is an excellent bedtime read when you are too tired to read anything worth reading.
There are few points more I should like to make.
Interestingly, Maugham's dramatic works fare much better in terms of criticism than his non-dramatic ones. Whether this is due to the fact that he was both very successful and very modern on the stage (whereas in his fiction he was only the former), or the reason is the higher quality of the reviewers themselves, I am not sufficiently learned to say. But it is notable that, firstly, there is a lot of repetition among the names of the drama critics and, secondly, their criticism is on the whole more sensible and certainly subtler than the one of their colleagues reviewing novels and short stories.
At all events, the reviews of Max Beerbohm, J.T. Grein and especially Desmond MacCarthy are well worth reading. These are men with exquisite writing styles, vast knowledge of the stage and remarkable personalities. One immediately sees why Maugham himself had a great respect for Mr MacCarthy and even once called him "not only a man of letters but also a man of the world".[4] Both are considerable compliments from Maugham's lips, much more so from his pen.
Unlike many, many others who have reviewed Maugham and find place in this volume of The Critical Heritage series, Mr MacCarthy obviously had read quite a bit of Maugham and had thought seriously over it before he wrote his reviews. Most importantly, and an equally rare phenomenon, he does take Maugham seriously. His review of Our Betters (New Statesman, October 1923) is a minor masterpiece. It also is a well-known and most fascinating example of all too rare critical perspicacity. Mr MacCarthy pointed out as one the play's faults that it should have been Elizabeth, not Lord Bleane, who discovered the scandalous tea house escapade in the second act. Later Maugham wrote in New Statesman that he had indeed written the play that way, but he had to change it due to censorship. It was only human of Mr MacCarthy to mention this in a footnote (reprinted here).
The case is so extraordinary that I sometimes wonder, cynically and rather unkindly, if Mr MacCarthy didn't know the play before its London premiere. After all, Our Betters had been first produced in New York, causing an expected storm of controversy due to national prejudice, full six years earlier, and as far as I know there had been no problems with the moralists of the day. Interestingly, too, the play was published by Heinemann in September 1923, the previous month before Mr MacCarthy's review appeared in New Statesman.
I wonder if it is a coincidence, but it is funny to note that the more famous the reviewer, the higher his or her classical status as creative writer, the worse reviews he or she writes. The aforementioned pathetic tirades of Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence are excellent examples, but Graham Greene's trite and superficial ranting or Rebecca West's worthless blabbering will do nicely, too. Even when such writers are more sympathetic to Maugham, most notably in the case of Evelyn Waugh, they have very little to say about his works but what is obvious to every person of average intelligence who has read these works carefully.
The best reviews of Maugham's non-dramatic works, surprisingly or not, come from the most forgotten today, like the totally obscure novelist Louise Maunsell Field for instance. She doesn't say anything strikingly original about The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), but she at least gives a comprehensive overview of the obvious fact that this short story collection is nothing short of masterpiece. And she does notice the singular repetition in "Red" and The Circle of the very same, and now famous, phrase that the tragedy of love is not death or separation but indifference: one of the most remarkable examples about the unity of themes between Maugham's works for the stage and those for the reading public. Messrs Curtis and Whitehead would do well to remember that next time they fantasise how very different these parts of Maugham's output are.
I suppose it is to be expected that the more famous creative writers, who must be highly original and unique personalities after all, would have little respect for anything but what they themselves write and would thus be unable to appreciate anything else. And, of course, they have to have a good opinion of their work and its value; otherwise they would not be creative writers but critics. As usual, Maugham put it best of all in The Summing Up (1938):
One of the reasons why current criticism is so useless is that it is done as a side-issue by creative writers. It is only natural that they should think the sort of thing they do the thing best worth doing. The great critic should have a sympathy as wide as his knowledge is universal. It should be grounded not on a general indifference, such as makes men tolerant of things they care nothing about, but on an active delight in diversity.
Since I do believe that Messrs Curtis and Whitehead did choose the best pieces from the voluminous critical attention which was accorded to Maugham during his life, I really shudder to think what its worst incarnations must look like. For those who are already quite familiar with the works of Somerset Maugham, this Critical Heritage volume is certainly a very enjoyable, occasionally enlightening but all too often worthless read. For those who are yet to become familiar with Maugham's writings, it is an excellent source of numerous highbrow prejudices and silly preconceptions. If you want to research Maugham's critical reception during his life, the book is an invaluable resource. But do this research at your peril.
[1] Preface to Liza of Lambeth, Heinemann, 1934, The Collected Edition.
[2] To be precise, this famous description does not occur in the original review as reprinted here. Mr Wilson later revised the piece and included it in his book Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1950) as "The Apotheosis of Somerset Maugham", pp. 319-26. Only in this later version does the famous description occur; apparently it was a brilliant afterthought.
[3] This comes from Ted Morgan's gossipy biography of Maugham (1980) and Heaven knows if it is accurate. Mr Morgan gives no specific source and he appears to have "heard it on the grapevine":
Later, discussing his Maugham article with a colleague of Richard Cordell's at Purdue who was his neighbour for the summer, Wilson said: 'You know, I think I settled that fellow's hash. And do you know, I've never read Of Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale, or The Razor's Edge.'
[4] "The Art of Fiction", introductory essay in Ten Novels and Their Authors, Heinemann, 1954. See also the essay "The Short Story" from the collection Points of View (1958) where Maugham pays this generous compliment to Desmond MacCarthy:
Memories are short nowadays and I may remind the reader that Desmond MacCarthy was not only a charming companion, but a very good critic. He was widely read, and he had the advantage, that not all critics have, of being a man of the world. His judgements within their limitations (he was somewhat indifferent to the plastic arts and to music) were sound, for his erudition was combined with a shrewd knowledge of life.
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Seeing an image explode into tiny dots and lines in three dimensions sounds more like the beginning of a physics theory, but FDG Entertainment transformed theory and art into an delightfully entertaining motion puzzle game. With several different design themes and over 240 levels Blueprint 3D is a great way to exercise your brain and creativity during spare hours. We mentioned Blueprint 3D in an earlier post with great expectations and we weren't disappointed. As the app name suggests, Blueprint 3D transforms a common image into nothing but scattered doodles across 3D space. By spinning and rotating the image via touch screen the player is challenged to form a cohesive blueprint gaining access to the next puzzle. The player is graded out of three stars on how fast they are able to solve the puzzle. The shorter the time, the more stars the player gets and higher the score. Solutions are available when the player is stumped. Originally only five solutions are provided but more can be bought with in app purchases.
Seven packs are currently available excluding the app's tutorial. There are different themes for each pack such as architecture, military, and star constellations. Starting out the architect pack offers 35 puzzles but players don't need to complete all of them to unlock the next pack. Instead a set amount of stars is needed to unlock the next set of puzzles. Along with different puzzle themes, Blueprint 3D sports an original soundtrack which I personally find to be calming when trying to figure out a particularly confusing puzzle. Each theme has its own soundtrack providing a full multimedia experience. The app is Game Center supported for trophies and post leading high scores. Though players may encounter game play redundancy since each puzzle is solved by using the same method, Blueprint 3D is a great puzzle game which will have you saying "just one more and I'm done". I have to give credit to FDG Entertainment for creating another App Store hit. AppPicker Rating: 5 / 5 Stars Pick It Up in the App Store: Blueprint 3D (iPhone) or Blueprint 3D HD (iPad) Other apps by FDG Entertainment

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The Part-time Office Assistant provides support services to the Congar Institute Administrative Staff.
1. Communications Management (e-mail, voice mail and postal mail)
• Provides Spanish translations
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• Helps to keeps website updated.
2. Receptionist Duties (English and Spanish)
3. Office Maintenance
• Purchase office supplies, books, furnishings, equipment as needed
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• Update bookkeeping software as needed
• Create periodic financial reports
• Track donations and related correspondence
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• Research best travel options for staff travel
• Plan travel in conversation with staff involved
• Purchase tickets and update calendar with travel information
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• Create folder with travel documents and related materials for each trip
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Canadian Hockey Fan Gets Ready For Scotiabank's 'See Stanley With Lanny'
TORONTO, June 4, 2012 /CNW/ - The Stanley Cup ® Final is well underway and one lucky Canadian family will be treated to an unforgettable Stanley Cup ® Final experience as winners of Scotiabank's ' See Stanley with Lanny' contest.Ste. Anne, Manitoba resident Norman Larocque and his family are celebrating after finding out they won Scotiabank's 'See Stanley with Lanny' contest that includes flights, accommodation and tickets to Game Four of the Stanley Cup ® Final on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 in Los Angeles with Canadian hockey legend and Stanley Cup ® winner, Lanny McDonald. Norman will be bringing his wife Michelle along with his son Yvan (27) and son-in-law Terry (27) to enjoy the experience together. "I've been a huge Lanny McDonald fan since I was a kid and I will never forget the moment he scored the goal that won the Calgary Flames ® the Stanley Cup ® in 1989," said Norman. "It still hasn't sunk in that we're headed to the Final, let alone that we get to share the experience with a real hockey hero!" Lanny McDonald's professional hockey career lasted from 1973 - 1989 during which time he played right wing for the Toronto Maple Leafs ®, Colorado Rockies™ and Calgary Flames ®. He served as captain for the Calgary Flames ® and led the 1989 team to the only Stanley Cup ® win in team history. "The Stanley Cup ® Final is always an incredible experience," said McDonald. "Being at a Final game, experiencing all of the energy, excitement and emotion is unbelievable and it's going to be extra special to get to share it with the Larocque family." "As the Official Bank of the NHL ®, Scotiabank is delighted to make this special hockey experience come alive for the Larocque family," said Duncan Hannay, Senior Vice President Marketing, Scotiabank. "We know they will have an unforgettable evening with Lanny and make rich memories that will last a lifetime." About Scotiabank Scotiabank is the Official Bank of the NHL ®, NHLPA ®, NHL Alumni™, CWHL, Winnipeg Jets™, Toronto Maple Leafs ®, Calgary Flames ® whose home arena is the Scotiabank Saddledome, and the Ottawa Senators ® whose home arena is Scotiabank Place. The Bank also has a partnership with the Montreal Canadiens ®. Scotiabank has a long tradition of supporting hockey in Canada from local teams and minor hockey associations to professional players and leagues. Across Canadian communities from coast to coast, Scotiabank's Community Hockey Sponsorship Program reaches out to more than 3,700 minor hockey teams and leagues.To find out more about Scotiabank's hockey programs, please visit www.facebook.com/scotiahockeyclub . Scotiabank is committed to supporting the communities in which we live and work, both in Canada and abroad, through our global philanthropic program, 'Bright Future'. Recognized as a leader internationally and among Canadian corporations for our charitable donations and philanthropic activities, Scotiabank has provided on average approximately $44 million annually to community causes around the world over each of the last five years. Visit us at www.scotiabank.com . About the National Hockey League The National Hockey League, founded in 1917, is the second-oldest of the four major professional team sports leagues in North America. Today, the NHL consists of 30 Member Clubs, each reflecting the League's international makeup, with players from more than 20 countries represented on team rosters. According to a Simmons Market Research study, NHL fans are younger, more educated, more affluent, and access content through digital means more than any other major professional sport. The NHL entertains more than 250 million fans each season in-arena and through its partners in national television (NBC Sports Network, NBC, TSN, CBC, RDS, and NHL Network™) and radio (NHL Radio™, and Sirius XM Radio). Through the NHL Foundation, the League's charitable arm, the NHL raises money and awareness for Hockey Fights Cancer™ and NHL Youth Development, and supports the charitable efforts of NHL players. For more information on the NHL, log on to NHL.com. ™ Trademarks of The Bank of Nova Scotia NHL, the NHL Shield and the word mark and image of the Stanley Cup are registered trademarks and NHL Alumni is a trademark of the National Hockey League. All NHL logos and marks and NHL team logos and marks depicted herein are the property of the NHL and the respective teams and may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of NHL Enterprises, L.P. © NHL 2012 . All Rights Reserved. SOURCE Scotiabank
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JOHNSTON, SC-- He's been a staple on the Strom Thurmond sideline for 10 years, but head football coach Lee Sawyer has decided the 2013 season was his last.
The longtime Rebels coach turned in his resignation Friday. His players were informed of the decision Monday.
After 30 years of coaching, 10 years as the Rebels head coach, Sawyer decided that he was done.
"I've had a ball, but it's time to move on. I don't want to be one of those guys people feel sorry for, that hung on too long," Sawyer said.
Sawyer finished with 107 wins, including a state championship in 2005. The search for a new Strom Thurmond coach begins immediately.
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It has been a streak that grew larger and larger in the heads of the Madera Coyote boys basketball team. Seven games in a row, the Madera South Stallions have beaten the Coyotes.
Behind 16 points from Ethan Richardson and 15 clutch points from Mackey West, the Coyotes stopped the losing streak to finish the first half of the County/Metro Athletic Conference in third place with a 3-2 record.
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My husband is a keen competent amateur bike mecahnic, but doesn't know how to build wheels and I know he'd like to. Anyone know any courses in SW London or the South East of the UK that I could buy him for Christmas?
My husband is a keen competent amateur bike mecahnic, but doesn't know how to build wheels and I know he'd like to. Anyone know any courses in SW London or the South East of the UK that I could buy him for Christmas?
I would try e-mailing or calling
Roger Musson, whom I have
never met, but who seems to
know a great deal on the subject
and also lives much closer to
you than I:
And may I add that given the
nature of your enquiry, you are
a real catch.
Mike Larmer
Afterthought: Many of the reasonably competent
mechanics on this forum and elsewhere learned
wheel building, truing, repairing with the aid of
a book (mine was Jobst Brandt's ---The Bicycle
Wheel) together with a low end repair stand, a
set of spoke wrenches, some kind of cheap vernier
caliper, and possibly a dishing gauge. Mr. Musson
sells a downloadable e-book that is well reviewed.
Additionally, you can probably find a UK supplier
for things like these:
and the deluxe package ("A" ticket to Disneyland)
would also include:
So if you come up empty on the course, you can
still put some stuff under the tree and turn him
loose in the workshop -- where he will be out of
your way for hours and hours.
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Your husband is indeed a lucky man.
3alarmer has given you some good leads for books and supplies but a true "hands-on" course would probably be valuable too. Since I have no idea where to send you specifically, I recommend you call or stop into one of your better local bike shops and ask if they offer such courses or can recommend someone who does. They will certainly have better local knowledge than most of us.
You might want to ask the people at 56a bikeroom if they have a class or something, it is a community bike shop and they seem like the kind of people that would have a workshop or a class.
Thanks so much for the responses. I've bought my husband a book (Roger Musson's); will be buying him some of the suggested tools/stuff today; and will ask my local bike shop about courses.
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SEMINOLE, Fla. (AP) -- A teenager is being treated for life-threatening injuries following a Labor Day tubing outing on Lake Seminole.
Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies say the 15-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl were being towed behind a 19-foot motorboat Monday afternoon when a man on a Sea-Doo crashed into them.
The younger girl is recovering from minor injuries.
Deputies say 21-year-old Ryan Godcharles of Naples was driving the Sea-Doo. He wasn't injured.
Alcohol doesn't appear to be a factor in the crash. Deputies are still investigating.
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Of the Baker City Herald
She may be just a plastic doll with cool clothes, nice digs and a longtime boyfriend. But to three Baker High School sophomores, she's their cross-country ticket to this summer's National History Day competition.
In February, Erin Brookshire, Tanya Denne and Anne Hensley used their fathers' power tools to create a homemade version of Barbie's Dream House. On Saturday, the exhibit won the statewide competition in Salem, qualifying the girls for the national competition June 9-13 in College Park, Md.
In addition, Heather Irby qualified nationally by finishing second in the state with her talk entitled "A Revolution in History: The National FFA Organization."
The three who created the Barbie exhibit took time out Monday afternoon from what is not a traditional Barbie activity softball practice to talk about why they chose Barbie as a revolutionary figure ("Revolution, Reaction and Reform in History" was the theme for this year's competition.).
In fact, it was a doubleheader against Riverside High School Saturday that kept Brookshire and Hensley from attending Oregon's History Day competition. Denne, who regularly plays shortstop for the Bulldogs, was the only one of the group who made the trip to Salem. She was accompanied by her mother, Cindy.
Denne noted that all three played with their Barbies as young girls she often invited her younger brother, Tanner, to play with her and her friends and that Barbie pointed her toward career possibilities even at a young age.
"She's done just about every occupation there is," Denne said, from model to president. "She projects the image that people can be anything they want to be. I loved Barbie."
Hensley said the three included in their presentation Saturday a recent opinion piece by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd that assigned Barbie and Ken gender roles in the Enron and Arthur Andersen scandals.
"Barbie is referred to as the intelligent, ethical woman who cares about her colleagues getting shafted," the three wrote, paraphrasing Dowd. "Ken is portrayed in this gender schism as more concerned about inflated assets."
"We (three) usually get recognition for our sports achievements," Hensley said. "It was nice to do something academic that got attention."
Brookshire said a trip to Maryland was the last thing on the girls' minds when they first got the idea to build their wooden display and decorate it with their own dolls and accessories and those they'd borrowed from friends.
"It started out as a project we didn't think would go anywhere," she said. "We just wanted to beat everyone in the class, not everyone in the state."
Judges at the district level gave the project a grade of "excellent," but at the state competition, the Barbie exhibit received an even loftier "superior" rating.
"Your willingness to critically think about Barbie from a positive perspective is impressive and thought-provoking," one judge wrote. "Does Barbie change society, or is Barbie changed by society?"
"As the participants probably know, Barbie has received a great deal of flack from feminist groups and you dealt with that nicely," another judge wrote. "I like thought-provoking projects, and your feeling that Barbie has withstood the test of time and criticism is important."
In all, 11 BHS students all under the direction of history teacher Cammy Warner qualified for the state competition. Debby Heckman and Anna Rodgers completed an exhibit on Philippe Pinel, a mental health reformer. Jill Berryman, Skye Forsgren, Whitney Hoopes, Melissa MacManiman and Leah Michel entered "Crime Lab: The Revolution of Crime Fighting."
The Barbie exhibit's success follows another BHS entry that made it all the way to the national competition. Last year, Brett Chapman, Steven Collins and Jed Rembold flew to College Park on the strength of their exhibit, "Star Wars: A Frontier in the Motion Picture Industry."
The three did not place nationally.
Already, Denne said, the three girls are mounting a fund-raising effort. She plans to write to Mattel, Barbie's manufacturer, to inquire if the toymaker would like to help fund the cost for the publicity their entry will generate.
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Spirit Airlines has dusted off its MILF (if you don't know what it means, try Google) promotion and introduced some other tacky double-entendres in its advertising, over the objections of its flight attendants and pilots.
The ads are sophomoric and tedious, and pretty much par for the course for Spirit. I guess they attract the drunken frat boy customers Spirit deserves.
The rest of us can stay away, not because we're outraged at political incorrectness but because we're not that stupid.
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A local charity group, the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) wants to update the website for their annual art auction fundraiser, which will be held this April. The event website is currently linked to the GAWL website, but it is a very elementary design, and they think that they're looking to start with something fresh.
If you're interested, send me a message and I can connect you with Suzannah Gill in order to get the ball rolling.


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McCaffrey uses Menolly's dreams of dragons fighting thread to present the major changes in the story. The description of the world around Menolly just before her discovery of the fire lizard foreshadows her running away and finding her destiny.:
The first of the low marsh valleys was pink and yellow with blooming seabeachplum and marshberry, slightly blackened here and there: more from the low-flying queens catching the odd Thread that escaped the main wings. Yes and there was the patch that the flame-thrower had charred: the one Thread infestation that had gotten through. One day, Menolly told herself, she'd just throw open a window's steel shutters and see the dragons charring Thread in the sky. What a sight that must be for certain! [24]
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Dragons?...She heard dragons? It couldn't be! They didn't swarm like that. Dragons always flew in ordered wings, a pattern against the sky. These were darting, dodging, the swooping and climbing. She shaded her eyes. Blue flashes, green, the odd brown and then . . . of course, sun glinting golden off the leading, dartlike body. A queen! A queen that tiny? [25]
The turning point in the story occurs when Menolly finally sees the dragons fighting the Thread. When Menolly runs away she takes her life into her own hands and follows her heart. She embraces a life that doesn't stop her from tuning and playing with music, though for most of the story, the fear remains. This is the moment where Menolly impresses the world:
She glanced over her shoulder. The grayness was spreading across the horizon. Now she could see flashes against that gray. Flashes? Dragons! She was seeing dragons fighting Thread, their fiery breath charring the dreaded stuff midair. They were so far away that the winking lights were more like lost stars than dragons fighting for the life of Pern.
Maybe the leading edge wouldn't reach this far? Maybe she was safe. "Maybe's seldom are" as her mother would say.
In the stillness of the air, a new sound made itself heard: a soft rhythmic thrumming, something like the tuneless humming of small children. Only different. The noise seemed to come from the ground. [73]
1. The use of dragons suggests the books status as a fantasy as does the creation of some sort of evil force, Thread. What do you think the repeated associations between Menolly and dragons? Look at the structure of the book and her affect on fire lizards: "Only fire lizards could be that small and look like dragons" (25).
2. Is there significance in Menolly's thoughts of herself: "A mere girl had seen what all the boys-and men-of the Sea hold had only dreamed of seeing, fire lizards at play" (27), and the description of the fire lizard's queen as "a queen that tiny"?
3. Does the description of dragons as orderly and fire lizards as disorderly give any indication of the ways the book's changes are structured? (The first turning point being her seeing the fire lizards and helping them and the second being her running away and seeing the dragons fighting the Thread.)
4. Does McCaffrey's use of the fire lizards and there relation to Menolly (constantly around her, attending her and protecting her) parallel the ending where the people gather around her? Does this relate to the gif""t she has that had been stifled at her home?
5. Do the dragons similar tuneless humming through the hatching parallel the fire lizard's musical progression from "tuneless humming" to harmony?


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A laser drill was an excavation tool used in terraforming and mining. Large versions incorporated an operating console and a laser, usually positioned behind.
During a terraforming operation on Velara III in 2364, the laser drill killed the hydraulics engineer, Arthur Malencon, and almost destroyed Lieutenant Commander Data when he was investigating Arthur's murder. It was found that the drill was being controlled by the microbrains. (TNG: "Home Soil")
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my big boy has acquired a new skill......sewing. This is his first solo creation, and he couldn't have been more excited about it. I should probably be a bit careful with what I encourage....too much of this may cause some shoved in the locker situations when he's in school someday :)
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Aidan has Lou's eyes, no doubt. Cute kid! I hope I can meet up with Lou this weekend.
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I love the position of his left hand. It's as though he's saying, "Don't bother me now, I'm concentrating."
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I've been sewing all my life. I used to do needlework (cross-stitch, etc.) and give them as gifts to my teachers.
I never once got shoved in a locker ... I did however get an atomic wedgie once.
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Good exercises post c-section?
After getting the OK from the Dr: What are good ways to lose baby weight exercise those delicate abdominals (esp the lower ones) after a C-section? Any tricks to getting rid of the little overhand over the scar? I'm not a jogger/runner, so that's out of the question, haha.
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I found a fabulous book that has me feeling better than I have in years! Plus I'm under my pre-pregnancy weight already! It's called "strategies for the csection mom" by Mary Beth knight. She's a physiotherapist and maternal fitness expert for Discovery Health. Plus she's had two csections herself which is why she wrote the book! It has an 18 month fitness plan specifically designed for women who've had a csection. Plus has additional sections on nutrition, stress etc. The exercises can all be done at home and some even with your baby! Plus the cardio can be done with walking while pushing your baby in the stroller. Check it out! P.S. I'm writing this purely as a mom who bought the book. This is not advertising!posted 03/12/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
Start by walking and then gradually increase the distance and intesity with which you walk. Walking is great exercise and can be done with baby! Or look into a stroller strides group near you. Practice daily scar massage (knead the scar and gently pull the skin out away from the scar) to keep the scar tissue from adhering to other tissue. This will help improve the appearance of the scar. Be careful with ab exercises. During pregnancy your abdominal muscles weaken and stretch and can even separate. And a c-section will actually cut through these muscles. So you need to take approach your ab workouts with caution. Start with pilates or other core strengthening exercises and avoid ab crunches.posted 03/12/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
I was told Pilates is the way to go. I just had a c section eight weeks ago and I'm ready to workout so I can wear my bikini this summer.posted 03/08/2013 by Navy_cat
'In neither incision are the abdominal muscles cut. The two strips of rectus muscle are manually further separated at the midline to gain access. This is important – your muscles have not been cut!' this is referring to the two kinds of incisions you may of had, doesn't matter which as in either case your muscles have not been cut into. no matter what the women above says. they have NOT BEEN CUT INTO. while it isn't advisable to start ab workouts before 8 weeks, if you are feeling up to it, I would suggest to go ahead. AS long as you are sure you can handle it.posted 02/14/2013 by pulpit1
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Shimano are about to release a new set of tandem cranksets that use external-bearing bottom brackets (i.e., two-piece crank design). Shimano's previous tandem cranks used Octalink bottom brackets, so this should be a major step forward in terms of weight and stiffness. EDIT: Official weight now given as a total of 1772 grams for both sets of cranks (170mm), bottom brackets, and chainrings.
I haven't seen an official announcement about this, I just accidently found the tech' doc's while looking for something else on the Shimano website. The product numbers are R603 for the stoker and R601 for the captain. I've since found an official description of them at the website of the UK's Shimano importer, Madison (see here and here). Still no photos yet, but there are some line drawings to look at in the PDF tech docs here and here. A few web-stores even have product pages for them (although no stock yet), and they are listed as having an RRP of about 500 UK pounds for the stoker cranks and 225 UKP for the captain's. It will be interesting to see how these prices translate to other currencies - the UK pound is currently doing quite poorly.
This will finally allow consumers and manufacturers to have a decent alternative to the FSA Gossamer cranks that most decent-quality road tandems are currently sold with. There are several reasons why I believe the Shimano model will be better than the FSA Gossamer. First, the Shimano cranks will be hollow instead of solid (which should mean that the Shimanos are lighter and/or stiffer). Second, Shimano chainrings nearly always shift better and last longer than FSA's. Third, Shimano will offer 170mm captain cranks (I know most people don't care, but the 172.5mm FSA captain cranks that we have really do bug me because they feel too long); it looks like both captain's and stoker's cranks will come in both 170mm and 175mm versions.
It's not all positive though, the biggest problem being that Shimano are using the 30-39-52 chainrings that come on the 6703 Ultegra triple crankset. All three rings are of a special design and are difficult to change to custom rings. The outer ring has built-in threads for the chainring bolts that are hidden on the inside, and the ring is shaped to follow the lines of the spider - use a different ring and you'll need new chainring bolts and the external shaping will look quite wrong, but at least the BCD is the standard 130mm (timing cranks also have 130mm BCD, the stock timing rings have 40 teeth). A bigger issue is that the inner ring does not mount to it's own mounting points on the spider (which would normally have a 74mm BCD), but instead bolts onto a special middle ring using a unique 92mm BCD - so to use a smaller inner ring you would also need to change the middle ring to a "Triplizer" model (I believe Stronglight and TA both still make them, but this makes changing the inner ring an expensive and complicated ordeal).
With the 2-piece crank design, it is hard to adjust chainline very much. I haven't found any info yet on what the chainline is on either the drive-side or timing-side cranks, but this is likely to be important information for anyone considering an upgrade to these cranks to know how compatible they would be for the current setup. The tech doc for the stoker's cranks lists shims of various sizes that can be used under the left-hand crank to alter it's position (see item #5 here), but the equivalent is not shown for the captain's crank (see here). EDIT: drive-side chainline is officially 45mm, timing-side chainline is 49.9mm (compared to 53mm on FSA's cranks).
BTW, as well as these new Shimano cranks and the FSA Gossamers mentioned above, other 2-piece, external-bearing tandem road cranksets are the FSA SL-K, Truvativ Elita, and Lightning. These are all included in my table of triple cranksets in this thread, I'll be adding the new Shimano cranks to that table soon.


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