Odo Stevens and Ted Jeavons and Quiggin are all definitely of humble origins surely! Mark Members as well if we are to believe Sillery! And Sillery makes claim to humble origins as well.
A question - why the fascination in the books with occultism? Eardliegh [Obviously Dion Fortune] Dr Trelawney [less obviously Aleister Crowley and Scorp Mirtlock [Possibly Kenneth Grant]. Why?? It seems so clearly out of step with the dance. Was Powell an Occultist?
Entertaining and enlightening! Nick Birns offers both a scholar's wisdom and a reader's enthusiasm.
Odo Stevens and Ted Jeavons and Quiggin are all definitely of humble origins surely! Mark Members as well if we are to believe Sillery! And Sillery makes claim to humble origins as well.
A question - why the fascination in the books with occultism? Eardliegh [Obviously Dion Fortune] Dr Trelawney [less obviously Aleister Crowley and Scorp Mirtlock [Possibly Kenneth Grant]. Why?? It seems so clearly out of step with the dance. Was Powell an Occultist?
I gave up after the tenth " a-a- a-nd " . Aural torture..!