Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Psalm 30

 

Quick breakfast post before riverside walk to gym. Other reading generates posts although they are sometimes off at a tangent. Poul Anderson quotes from the Bible a lot. Last night, after noting that Dominic Flandry and Modesty Blaise have each been described as a tiger by the tail, we found Modesty's assistant, Willie Garvin, quoting Psalm 30: 5. However, this was a one-off and a significant piece of characterization. Modesty comments that, between the two of them, he is the expert in such matters because he is the one who had spent a year in a cell with nothing to read but a Psalter!

We hope to return to Poul Anderson's The Merman's Children this evening.

Onward with imagination in all its forms.

Addendum: That was not a one-off. Willie later quotes Psalm 120:7.


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2 comments:

  1. Sean M. Brooks26 August 2025 at 17:53

    Kaor, Paul!

    Anyone who got locked up for a year with only the Bible or a part of the Scriptures to read would certainly read it over and over! For me, oddly, I've had Tobias 12.7 in mind: "For it is good to hide the secret of a king..." (Challoner revision of the DR). Probably because it would make a good motto for the Naval Intelligence Corps Flandry served in. Or the UK and US intelligence services.

    Ad astra! Sean

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  2. S.M. Stirling26 August 2025 at 20:02

    I'm a Modesty Blaise fan myself...

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