News from Somewhere
The “somewhere” is Nafpaktos (which the Venetians, when they acquired the town, renamed Lepanto) on the Corinthian Gulf.
Category: Fleming
The Marshal’s Own Case
The Marshal’s Own Case is the seventh of Magdalen’s mystery novels featuring Marshall Salvatore Guarnaccia. Jack Trotter, who introduced me to Nabb some years ago, has been invited to write some things on several of the other novels, but let us leap ahead to consider this, the strangest and least liked of her books.
Magdalen Nabb II: Death of an Englishman
While we are waiting for people to acquire and peruse The Marshall’s Own Case, we can talk briefly about the series. The first novel is as good a way to begin as anything .
Douglas Fleming, Requiescat in Pace
Many of our readers I know personally and some are good friends, and I think to a great extent we are all at least virtual friends
Magdalen Nabb
A few days ago, in the discussion of the Nashville school shootings, I suggested that if people wan’t to gain a more serious understanding of the transgender world, they might not do better than to read the seventh of Magdalen Nabb’s detective mysteries set in Florence (not South Carolina).
Poetry: Hog Killing on the South Santee 1983
I wrote this fifty years ago after taking part in a hog-killing. We did eat every scrap of the pork.
One Precious Right
WARNING: THIS IS NOT FOR SENSITIVE SOULS
Katrine Jean-Pierre and other spokesthings for the regime are showing their contempt for the lives of citizens by politicking the school shooting in Nashville.
America a Captive Nation: The Subjugation of English
It is in the nature of alien invaders, if they arrive in sufficient numbers, to impose their language on the conquered people, and it is in the nature of ideological revolutions to distort and reshape the language as a tool for imposing their revolution.
Westerns Episode 3: High Noon (1952)
In this episode Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss High Noon (1952) and how it has endured despite the intentions of its creators. Homework for next episode: watch Rio Grande.
America A Captive Nation: The Subversion of Language, Part A
Among the most precious parts of a cultural revolution is language, and it is inevitable that the language of a subject people is treated no more gently than religious shrines or historical monument.
