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I still feel the heat, but you've not come back yet from Watling Street
It took all week, but I finally slept. The afternoon is full of brilliant sunshine which I am about to head out into. I am observing the boycott because I see no reason not to.
I had not re-read Tanith Lee's A Heroine of the World (1989) in at least a decade. All of the air still goes out of the tires of the second half for no obviously necessary reason, but I still enjoy the intricate jewelry of the first half and this time around discovered after a few chapters that Martin Jarvis had unexpectedly cast himself as the romantic antihero, the blond-maned, bitterly charming and compromised Thenser Zavion. I have no evidence that Lee had him in mind for the part. She was relatively open about her appropriation of actors for her characters, most famously Paul Darrow in Kill the Dead (1980), although she warned in the introduction to the 2013 reprint of that novel that "I think actually only Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jacqueline Pearce remained exactly physically like themselves throughout those several Lee novels they have adorned." But he has canonically a beautiful voice and it took no effort to hear its cast-iron crust after a harrowing duel, coolly deflecting the congratulations due a hero, "I think she thinks, quite rightly, he isn't much of one."
I am charmed that the Trials of Cato's "Bedlam Boys" (2022) establishes its lineage by opening with a distorted, recognizable sample of Steeleye Span.
I had not re-read Tanith Lee's A Heroine of the World (1989) in at least a decade. All of the air still goes out of the tires of the second half for no obviously necessary reason, but I still enjoy the intricate jewelry of the first half and this time around discovered after a few chapters that Martin Jarvis had unexpectedly cast himself as the romantic antihero, the blond-maned, bitterly charming and compromised Thenser Zavion. I have no evidence that Lee had him in mind for the part. She was relatively open about her appropriation of actors for her characters, most famously Paul Darrow in Kill the Dead (1980), although she warned in the introduction to the 2013 reprint of that novel that "I think actually only Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jacqueline Pearce remained exactly physically like themselves throughout those several Lee novels they have adorned." But he has canonically a beautiful voice and it took no effort to hear its cast-iron crust after a harrowing duel, coolly deflecting the congratulations due a hero, "I think she thinks, quite rightly, he isn't much of one."
I am charmed that the Trials of Cato's "Bedlam Boys" (2022) establishes its lineage by opening with a distorted, recognizable sample of Steeleye Span.
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I am impressed that you can catch her internal casting. I don't think I would ever pick up on that.
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I don't know for a fact in this case! I am much more confident about clocking the influence of John McEnery on her version of Mercutio in Sung in Shadow (1983). I had just discovered Martin Jarvis since last reading the novel and I heard him from about the character's second line and there we were.