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Ordinary Time
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‘... Stylish, witty, original, and beautifully written, speaking splendidly of Old England. In short, bloody marvellous’: Peter Maughan, author of ''Under the Apple Boughs'' and of the “Batch Magna Chronicle� (''The Cuckoos of Batch Magna; Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall; The Batch Magna Caper; Clouds in a Summer Sky;'' and ''The Ghost of Artemus Strange'').Or, to the Duke of Taunton, bloody cheek and damned impertinence.Either way, this is the British novel published, at last, after much delay excused in the Afterword, in 2020 by GMW Wemyss: the fifth in the Village Tales series, narrating the events of most of 2017 in the Woolfonts, the Downlands, and the Vale. And beyond.The Ripped from the Headlines bits in Ordinary Time inevitably – 2017 having been 2017 – concentrate upon the snap General Election, the haplessness of Mrs May, the inability of Mr Corbyn to score against an open goal, Brexit, and the year’s various terror attacks, including the Manchester Arena bombing at the Ariana Grande concert. But the physical storms of the year, including Storms Doris, Ophelia, and Brian, perhaps matter more, to farmers … and to archaeologists, who find unexpected remains uncovered by storms.There’s an intelligence and counter-intelligence inquiry (and a contact with Israeli intelligence note actually Aman and Haman and Saudi intelligence, and a Belated Entry gazetting of the Duke’s actual rank with hints of what he’s been up to as a purportedly shelved Army Reserve officer); a murder in the West Midlands in which Canon Paddick’s two oldest friends feature as the victim and the accused; crises of faith; a Becket-style showdown between Church and State.... The fallout from the cock-ups of Ye Little Hills Like Lambs continues; as do the canal project, the Great Vale Dig, and the plans for the new school in the Downlands, with those parishes’ ongoing integration into the Combined Benefice.But at the end of the day, what matters are scholarship, sanctity, love, and the land: births and baptisms, marriage engagements, several marriages (as trailed in the preceding book, the Duke to Professor the Baroness Lacy; his former sister-in-law Connie to Sir Giles Trulock; and Sher’s sister Ameena to Tariq ), a few funerals, farrowing and lambing and shearing and harvest, mercy and justice – and cricket; for, as ever in the Woolfonts, in times ordinary and extraordinary alike, in the deep continuity of England, “pigs and parishes, saints, scholars, and sheep, go on forever�, “all things begin and end in Albion’s ancient Druid rocky shore�, and “all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.� “Everything is much older than we think.�The semper reformanda, ever-evolving character sheet for the series is here. New significant characters introduced in this volume or made so since a previous reference in the series include Emma Seaton MRCVS (“not the novelist�); Jack Fothergill, great-grandnephew of Hugo Mallerstang’s old WWII batman, valet at Hellgill Hall (and Mr Yeates is now there in wintry Westmorland on extended loan to Lord Mallerstang, buttling away); the Black British officers Colonel Robbie Gant note whose insistence that there’s no “r� in “Gant� as “he’s not a bloody Scotsman� dowered him with Army bye-name of “No-Arse Gant� and Major Gar “Lefty� Lewis; Jack Proffitt; Mr Justice Collingridge; Sher Mirza’s sisters Noor and Ameena, Ameena’s fiance Tariq Ali Khan Alvi Baig, his parents Sohail and Gulrukh, and Dr Amla their imam Oop North; Lady Manningham-Buller, in a Real-Person Cameo; Kevin Bagnall; Gerry Douty and Anne Custis; Gemma Douty; old Mrs Lacy, Millicent Lacy’s mother; and Mr and Mrs Westgate and their small son Andrew.Appearing also, at Fête and Penelope Keith; and, for a bit of smithing, Alec Steele. And there are Royals at a few weddings, as Strictly Private Occasions.Locations are Wiltshire, mostly; Town; the West Midlands; Westmorland and, briefly, Cheshire (and Alderley Edge); Perthshire; and, a new entry, the Hebridean Isle of Avard. | |
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Barsetshire | |
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Barsetshire: And a standing rebuke to all that’s going on in “less happier lands.� | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Badass: We did mention all the old soldiers, did we not? | |
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Inspector Lestrade | |
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Inspector Lestrade: DCI Beebee, in his way. He’s just wrong and stubborn. | |
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The Spymaster | |
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The Spymaster: His Grace, and of course Eliza, Lady Manningham-Buller. | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: One reason not to cross the Duke. He shall be, sure as sure. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: A phrase from the ecclesiastical Kalendar, so the book itself is not quite a ''literary'' allusion title this time. | |
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Badass Israeli | |
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Badass Israeli: Rasan Levy of IDF military intelligence, whose NOC is as a demi-monde, celebrity purveyor of studio-produced gay porno. As the Duke notes, | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: The competitive-carriage-driving milkmen, Jemmy Dally and Ernie Bellin. | |
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Fictional Document | |
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Fictional Document: Charters, Feet of Fines, manorial rolls, Victorian-era County directories.... Sometimes, it’s fictional entries amidst straight quotations from the actual documents. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: Many of them. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Oodles. DCI Beebee; Diane Cashmore; Foljambe of the Revenue.... | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: A whole armory of them. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: Every. Other. Page. Or so it seems. Happens with the Qu’ran with Muslim characters on occasion, too. | |
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Arcadia | |
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Arcadia: Red in tooth and claw, layer upon layer since the Mesolithic or earlier, and all being slowly dug up. | |
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Career-Ending Injury | |
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Career-Ending Injury: Since Ye Little Hills Like Lambs, Premier Leaguer Kevin Bagnall. The Duke Has Plans For Him. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Connie … glacially slowly. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: Hurricane season of them, mostly academic and many of them multilingual, from Sher’s wisely suppressed one about aunties and in-laws and puppets, to the Duke’s duel of puns with Professor Farnaby on bear-worship. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Latin, inevitably; and Greek, and French, and Anglo-Saxon, and Scots Gaelic, and Welsh, and Urdu.... | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: That Most High, Potent, and Noble Prince, His Grace the Duke of Taunton KG GCB GCVO KBE =Mi D= TD PC JP DL, Marquess of Templecombe, Earl Fitzwarren, Earl of Dilton, Viscount and Baron Malet, Baron Daubeny, Baron Chard, Baron Beechbourne, Baron Marden and Widham, Commander of Clan Stewart of Camserney, Teà rlach Diùc, Mac mhic Raibeart Prionnsa Stiubhaird na Chamserney, late Major the Intelligence Corps, Fellow of All Souls, now gazetted by Belated Entry as a Staff Colonel, Army Reserve, seconded to the Ministry of Defence. | |
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State Sec | |
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State Sec: ISI just will not learn, will they. | |
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Bury Your Gays | |
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Bury Your Gays: The Duke’s cynical assessment of West Midland Police’s handling of the murder of their own Sgt Ste Trantor and their decision to charge Davy Evans without much investigation. | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: What Sher mistakenly fears he’ll be seen as, unjustly. Sometimes what the Duke is tempted to think of his late brother, not because of the bisexuality but because of the late Lord Crispin’s nigh-sociopathic selfishness. | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language: Subverted: as much of the novel involves the past and scholars thereof, it’s not gratuitous. But there’s a right smart of it. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius (In-Universe): The Duke, and regularly called out on it. | |
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Scatterbrained Senior | |
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Scatterbrained Senior: Sadly, the Duchess’ mum, who’s in the last, non-verbal stages of Alzheimer’s. | |
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Cryptic Background Reference | |
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Cryptic Background Reference: Abound. For one thing, the Dig is really just now getting underway. | |
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Outdoorsy Gal | |
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Outdoorsy Gal: Joining the cast, Gerry Douty’s new fiancee, and new vet Emma Seaton. They’ll fit right in. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: A whole spoilery pile-up of them. | |
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Preppy Name | |
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Preppy Name: Sloaney ones, at least, abound. | |
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Rare Money | |
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Rare Money: A unique coin from the reign of Ptolemy I Soter in Egypt, just after the death of, as the Duke calls him, Wee Eck McPhillip of Macedon. | |
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Perfect Poison | |
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Perfect Poison: Played with. The actual murder doesn’t involve poison at all. The framing / fitting-up of the accused involves cumulative doses of a deliriant, either nutmeg overdose as such or to hide the taste of a purer hallucinogenic derived from myristicin and/or elemicin. | |
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Epistolary Novel | |
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Epistolary Novel: In parts. Not least in the run-up to the ducal wedding, when the older ladies of the Family write back and forth about it in a homage to the opening of Busman’s Honeymoon. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard (In-Universe): The Duke is designated and admired as such by the Nawab, and so designated but not admired by Edmond. His Grace’ll take it: it’s tactically useful. | |
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Weather Report Opening | |
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Weather Report Opening: And closing, too. | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess: The usual ducal variety. | |
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Friendship as Courtship | |
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Friendship as Courtship: Their Graces. | |
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Smart People Know Latin | |
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Smart People Know Latin: They’ll not make it as archaeologists or pre-modern historians if they don’t: as is demonstrated. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Yet another new entry in an already long list: Caisteal an Acarsaid, “Anchorage House,� on Avard; also, The McCammond’s town house in Oban and (mentioned) his seat at An Caisteal, on the Isle of Hinba; and, unasked, the Duke spends time before his wedding making certain all his other properties are up to scratch and moving tapestries and Old Masters about to make the future Duchess more comfortable. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Hardcore. But not, in a novel about history, archaeology, and The Land Itself, gratuitous. | |
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Multiple Reference Pun | |
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Multiple Reference Pun: Storms of them. | |
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Call to Adventure | |
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Call to Adventure: Married or not, now, the Duke rings it up, having adventure on speed-dial. And Jack Proffitt jumps to answer the call when the Duke rings him up. | |
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Children's Literature | |
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Children's Literature: Not the book, but the impromptu tea-time stories (of “Small Julian and his sister Tullia, Who Was Smaller Yet, and Accordingly Much The More Fierce,� adopted corporately by a fictional Oxbridge college) which the Duke gets into the habit of telling once a month to all the sprogs in the District, at Wolfdown. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: Engagements to engagements, Ordinary Time I to Ordinary Time II. And the Weather Report Opening is mirrored in the closing passages, too. So’s the teasing foreshadowing about the as yet un-dug and un-surveyed landscape of the little River Rushlight. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_53224e46 | |
| Ordinary Time / int_5389b851 | type |
Day in the Life | |
| Ordinary Time / int_5389b851 | comment |
Day in the Life: Edmond foolishly thinks the Duke spends all day playing God and lording it over everyone. The Duke tells him to show up unannounced on any weekday he likes, and shadow him for day. Edmond, after a very detailed grueling day, returns home late, utterly shattered … and still convinced that the Duke spends all day playing God and lording it over everyone, and Where Does He Find the Time? | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_5466745d | type |
Clear Their Name | |
| Ordinary Time / int_5466745d | comment |
Clear Their Name: What the Duke intends for the accused in the West Midlands murder, for several reasons. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_5466745d | |
| Ordinary Time / int_559b4bb3 | type |
Call to Agriculture | |
| Ordinary Time / int_559b4bb3 | comment |
Call to Agriculture: Farming is a vocation, and the planned new school in the Downlands intends to teach it. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_55bd649c | type |
Boy Band | |
| Ordinary Time / int_55bd649c | comment |
Boy Band: The Fonts, of course, with added ducal foundation-shifting bass; Hetty’s obsession; and, in the ducal opinion, in cameo, McFly. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_55bd649c | |
| Ordinary Time / int_59907e4f | type |
Police Are Useless | |
| Ordinary Time / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police Are Useless: Certainly when they get stubborn and have tunnel-vision. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_59ea5a9 | type |
Selective Enforcement | |
| Ordinary Time / int_59ea5a9 | comment |
Selective Enforcement: What snaps Sher for a time, when the Duke mildly suggests he not sing anything too sexy at the Village Concert, even though Teddy and Edmond can’t be stopped from doing so. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_5a194444 | type |
But Not Too Bi | |
| Ordinary Time / int_5a194444 | comment |
But Not Too Bi: What Sher, when he finally loses it, thinks is unfairly demanded of him due to his position, on pain of being regarded as a bad influence, and shunned. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_5b9b4a19 | type |
Almighty Mom | |
| Ordinary Time / int_5b9b4a19 | comment |
Almighty Mom: Edmond’s mum, Teddy’s mum, Betty Stamford, Mary Paddick, Emily Mirza.... Tragically averted with Millicent’s mother, who is nowadays sunk into the uttermost depths of Alzheimer’s Syndrome. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_5ce2c9c6 | type |
Suddenly Shouting | |
| Ordinary Time / int_5ce2c9c6 | comment |
Suddenly Shouting: Sher, when he cracks. The Duke, being a Basso Profundo, doesn’t shout: he booms. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_5ce2c9c6 | |
| Ordinary Time / int_6366f900 | type |
Old Soldier | |
| Ordinary Time / int_6366f900 | comment |
Old Soldier: Behind every hedgerow: including Jack Proffitt in the West Midlands. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_63be4131 | type |
Pretty Boy | |
| Ordinary Time / int_63be4131 | comment |
Pretty Boy: By the castful, and added to in this as in every installment. And even in their thirties, Sher and Teddy alike are holding on that title. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_6537cc1a | type |
All Girls Like Ponies | |
| Ordinary Time / int_6537cc1a | comment |
All Girls Like Ponies: The Duke’s niece is aging into a newer sense of the trope: with the Hon. Gwen (and Lady Agatha), she’s becoming a fixture of the Turf. As an owner-to-be. Which is reflected in her birthday gifts.... Never applied, to Sir Giles’ relief, to Emma Seaton MRCVS, his new junior: she’s an ovine specialist, leaving him free to continue as an equine specialist, which is what he got his K for. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_6537cc1a | |
| Ordinary Time / int_66755d29 | type |
Author Avatar | |
| Ordinary Time / int_66755d29 | comment |
Author Avatar: The Duke and the Duchess, looking idly over another character’s library and mostly approving his taste, see that the authors represented include even that “odd little chap, Wemyss;� and the “Advance Praise� section for the book begins with a highly commendatory blurb from the very real British novelist Peter Maughan and then proceeds to reactions from In-Universe figures, including, “We must all pray for Mr Wemyss. – The Revd Canon Noel Paddick SSC.� | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_67a90462 | type |
Experimental Archeology | |
| Ordinary Time / int_67a90462 | comment |
Experimental Archeology: The ducal canal-restoration plans; the Tijou gate; and more. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_6a2c358d | type |
A Death in the Limelight | |
| Ordinary Time / int_6a2c358d | comment |
A Death in the Limelight: Several, including, violently a fireman in the Vale and Canon Paddick’s old friend, police sergeant Ste Trantor, in the West Midlands. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_6b7e3069 | type |
Birth-Death Juxtaposition | |
| Ordinary Time / int_6b7e3069 | comment |
Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Of course. Parishes tend to births, baptisms, weddings, deaths, and the Burial Service. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_6d7026fa | type |
Punny Name | |
| Ordinary Time / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: Subverted and lampshaded, as to toponyms and the ducal reflection that some families in the peerage really ought to know better in christening children who may get such a name if a peerage falls in. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_6eec6377 | type |
Soapbox Sadie | |
| Ordinary Time / int_6eec6377 | comment |
Soapbox Sadie: That post-graduate, Social-Justice-Warrior-variety Sadie, the American Rhodes Scholar and Rhodes Must Fall activist Ms Anderson-Harris, is joined by Tony Bellhouse-Crimes, the go-ahead former (disclaimed) viscount Corbishley of Monneley, mocked by other characters as “Lord Corbynite of Momentum,� and trendy Dr. Zoe Sproat-Sabri of the US Episcopal Church, an Assistant Bishop somewhere in California (though not to the Duke, or the AEO clergy: the Duke, naturally, calls her “a deaconess in togs above her station�). | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_7263b4ea | type |
Car Porn | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7263b4ea | comment |
Car Porn: The Tidnock classic Rolls (and the Tidnock Hilux for that matter, painted in livery colors and with the ducal crest on the door); Lord Mallerstang’s classic Bentley; the ducal fleet of liveried Bristol motorcars; and two of Rupert’s 21st birthday gifts, a classic Bristol at Hellgill and a Bristol Bullet at Wolfdown. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_7263b4ea | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7276d0de | type |
Mugging the Monster | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7276d0de | comment |
Mugging the Monster: Really, it’s best to let sleeping Dukes alone. The man’s half [2]’s dragon, half honey-badger. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_73641290 | type |
The Strategist | |
| Ordinary Time / int_73641290 | comment |
The Strategist: His Grace … rivaled only by Her Grace. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: “Ordinary time(s),� in both the ecclesiastical and the common or garden sense; and, with it, variations of the landscape-and-economic-historian W. G. Hoskins’ maxim, “Everything is much older than we think;� X or Y secular thing passes, but “pigs and parishes, saints, scholars, and sheep, go on forever;� Blakes’ “the I am of the Oaks of Albion� and “All things begin and end in Albion’s ancient Druid rocky shore;� and Dame Julian’s “all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.� | |
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Passionate Sports Girl | |
| Ordinary Time / int_76b15b5b | comment |
Passionate Sports Girl: Unexpectedly, Gemma Douty. And Gerry Douty’s new fiancee. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_76b4b7dd | type |
The Comically Serious | |
| Ordinary Time / int_76b4b7dd | comment |
The Comically Serious: Connie, of course. | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones | |
| Ordinary Time / int_779009b5 | comment |
Beware the Quiet Ones: Rule Number One in the Woolfonts, particularly with the clergy; it is now extended to the Downland parishes and into the Vale adjoining. And West Midlands Police and all of Whitehall are being given a crash course in it, too. (The Duke’s at his deadliest when he does not bellow and roar, but instead gets all quietly menacing.) | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_7921ad77 | type |
Actually, I Am Him | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7921ad77 | comment |
Actually, I Am Him: It’s unwise to complain of the Duke’s presence – he having Done Majorly Awesome Things in Afghanistan and becoming known as The Red Wolf, from a Pastho proverb – at a British Asian wedding when the ground of the complaint is that The Red Wolf did Majorly Awesome Things in Afghanistan to one’s co-religionists. He’ll inevitably be, in the panto sense, right behind one. With the bride’s father; her uncle the Nawab; and the groom’s father standing grimly beside him. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_7a265daa | type |
Eagleland | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7a265daa | comment |
Eagleland: As expected, mixed and nuanced examples, as Dr. Sproat-Sabri is balanced by Gerry Douty’s new fiancee, Anne Custis, the FFV daughter of an American general officer in joining the ranks alongside Ms Anderson-Harris and Lt. Travis Bolling Martinez-Henderson III. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_7a77148 | type |
Close-Knit Community | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7a77148 | comment |
Close-Knit Community: Several. For both good and bad values of the trope. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_7e74d66f | type |
Politically Correct History | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7e74d66f | comment |
Politically Correct History: The junior scholars keep looking for it. Reality keeps punching back. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_7eb73553 | type |
Bullying a Dragon | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7eb73553 | comment |
Bullying a Dragon: In Flashback, the previous duke – the current Duke’s father, that Old Brigadier – seemed to be doing so in the ’60s when, on leave, after learning that a young officer, as well as SAS' David Stirling, had been fleeced at some gambling hells, he demanded – and got – a meeting with the Mob behind them, including the Krays. Turns out the then duke was the bigger dragon, and they’d been mugging the wrong monsters. He got an agreement that certain people were off limits; got restitution made; gave them targeted, detailed, highly personal analyses of just why and how they were scum, and dared them to resent it; and walked away, tossing them as a luck-penny a golden guinea from the reign of his ancestor James II, remarking that if one has ancestors one may as well honor them. Attempting to take on the current Duke also counts, though few people survive to profit by the lesson. The Nawab attributes this to the Duke’s having had the father he had. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| Ordinary Time / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: The Duke’s father in flashback; see the dragon-bullying entry above. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_80a7d3e2 | type |
Convicted by Public Opinion | |
| Ordinary Time / int_80a7d3e2 | comment |
Convicted by Public Opinion: The accused in the West Midlands murder. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_80a7d3e2 | |
| Ordinary Time / int_85ca9dab | type |
Second Love | |
| Ordinary Time / int_85ca9dab | comment |
Second Love: Connie with Sir Giles – if she gets over herself and defrosts; chastely and celibately, Sher and Canon Noel; and Miss Petty and Sir Tom. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_85d24c0b | type |
Cutesy Name Town | |
| Ordinary Time / int_85d24c0b | comment |
Cutesy Name Town: Averted. See the Brick Joke entry above for one example. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_85d24c0b | |
| Ordinary Time / int_86daf505 | type |
Parental Bonus | |
| Ordinary Time / int_86daf505 | comment |
Parental Bonus: Throughout the Julian-and-Tullia snippets; The Breener’s abortive attempt at telling bedtime stories to the twins; Pip’s confronting Teddy about the dads’ getting amorous in the kitchen; and Pip’s and AJ’s resentment of fruits at breakfast, and Teddy’s explanation of how he gets Edmond to go along: “sports nutrition.� | |
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Ordinary Time / int_86daf505 | |
| Ordinary Time / int_8c78872 | type |
Writer's Block | |
| Ordinary Time / int_8c78872 | comment |
Composer’s Block: Sher suffers from this in his attempts to write his own Enigma Variations: the block being his adored Canon Paddick. It’s a factor in his later brief breakdown. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_8cb4ea46 | type |
By-the-Book Cop | |
| Ordinary Time / int_8cb4ea46 | comment |
By-the-Book Cop: Wilts Police, all ’round; less usefully, West Midlands Police. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_8cb4ea46 | |
| Ordinary Time / int_90c54800 | type |
Scrapbook Story | |
| Ordinary Time / int_90c54800 | comment |
Scrapbook Story: In part, when the historical documents come out. | |
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| Ordinary Time / int_952eba7e | type |
To Win Without Fighting | |
| Ordinary Time / int_952eba7e | comment |
To Win Without Fighting: The Duke’s usual object all sublime. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_952eba7e | |
| Ordinary Time / int_95979921 | type |
Evil Jesuit | |
| Ordinary Time / int_95979921 | comment |
Evil Jesuit: Averted; the juniors at the Dig are confused, some of them, about Tudor history. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_95979921 | |
| Ordinary Time / int_95f92a7b | type |
Interclass Friendship | |
| Ordinary Time / int_95f92a7b | comment |
Interclass Friendship: Their Graces make this their trademark; and it’s reciprocate, mostly. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_95f92a7b | |
| Ordinary Time / int_96144372 | type |
Aristocrats Are Evil | |
| Ordinary Time / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Played with. Edmond believes this to be almost (if that) universally true. So do a lot of the juniors at the Dig. The Duke regards his contemporary peers as average for a subset of the general population, but commonly dim to the point of idiocy; his view of his ancestors, however, Malets, Clares, Pelhams, Plantagenets, Stuarts, and all, is richly cynical. | |
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Kindly Vet | |
| Ordinary Time / int_97d79b7f | comment |
Kindly Vet: Sir Giles is now joined by Emma Seaton MRCVS. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_97d79b7f | |
| Ordinary Time / int_98a63dc6 | type |
Time Abyss | |
| Ordinary Time / int_98a63dc6 | comment |
Time Abyss: The land as a character in its own right: which is a major theme of the book. | |
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Depraved Homosexual | |
| Ordinary Time / int_9cad69bf | comment |
Depraved Homosexual: What the Duke suspects the ninth duke should have been had he not died young in the Great War: the potential depravity being, not hysterics and scandals, but, far worse, ruining the estates. | |
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Ordinary Time / int_9cad69bf | |
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Early Personality Signs | |
| Ordinary Time / int_a1a46946 | comment |
Early Personality Signs: Andrew Westgate. | |
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Benevolent Boss | |
| Ordinary Time / int_a24670a4 | comment |
Benevolent Boss: His Grace. Of course. Yet more obviously, the clergy. Exaggerated – ''... loud as you can make it go / Play until your speakers blow'' – with Professor the Baroness Lacy and Professor Farnaby, for the archaeology dig. | |
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Too Clever by Half | |
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Too Clever by Half: ISI as per usual. Far less dangerously, a number of fledgling junior scholars on the Dig. | |
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Cool Uncle | |
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Cool Uncle: The Duke, and Her Grace as a Cool Aunt, both to their actual relations and otherwise; the ancient Lord Mallerstang; the Canon (and Sher), to his niece and ward; and Lady Agatha to everyone. | |
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Little Professor Dialog | |
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Little Professor Dialog: Andrew Westgate. Teddy worries about Pip in this regard; Canon Paddick points out that he’s the son of a novelist mother and a rural-essayist gran, who had to grow up fast, so it’s hardly indicative of Pip’s possibly being on the spectrum. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Universal reaction to finding one’s having got crosswise with the Nawab; the Duke; or, God help you, Her Grace the Duchess. Earth-toned trousers are advised. | |
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Public Domain Artifact | |
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Public Domain Artifact: Archaeologically, yes, plenty, including a Ptolemy I gold stater from God-knows-how-it-got-there. | |
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Pragmatic Hero | |
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Pragmatic Hero: Well, the Duke’s certainly pragmatic, at least. | |
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Small Reference Pools | |
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Small Reference Pools: Averted and inverted, from the Honey Coombe brick joke to historiography, archaeology (including geophysical surveys, sondages, LIDAR, and field walks), and toxicology. | |
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Real-Person Cameo | |
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Real-Person Cameo: As seen above, passim. | |
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Adjective Animal Alehouse | |
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Adjective Animal Alehouse: Played with. The pub in Woolfont Magna is of course the Blue Boar (from one of the supporters in the ducal arms); other locals may (the Red Cow) or may not (the Old Bridge; the Woolpack) fit the bill; but the Duke is determined that the new canal-side pubs shan’t be, and that that the revived pub for the Downlands’ center of settlement shall be the "Chalk Horse" . | |
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Take That! | |
| Ordinary Time / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Even those on her side hand these out to Dr. Sproat-Sabri. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
| Ordinary Time / int_b58c51d8 | comment |
My Beloved Smother: Connie is not best pleased that her children – even Hetty, now – are no longer even tolerating-with-amusement her habit of this. And gets called out on it: including by Canon Paddick when she attempts to warn him against conducting any marriages – of her adult children, no less – without her approval. He points out that she hasn’t the right or the power to meddle. | |
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Gossipy Hens | |
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Gossipy Hens: Lady Agatha, Flora the dowager Countess of Freuchie, Lady Apwyn, the Hon. Miss Alys Meredith, Lady Landrake, Lady Avenwater, Lady Snodland, and for that matter Sir Gregory Athelney and the nice-but-dim the Hon. Giles Geers-Gamage. Mrs Viney, at Wolfdown, agrees with Her Grace that the ducal couple naturally take up all the local gossip, with little left for the rest of the Great and Good unless it involves romance; and it’s pointed out that the middle classes, who’d normally retail most of the gossip, are nowadays either too busy for it, or don’t hear it because they haven’t the servants a Jane Marple had. Still, it exists, there are hens, and Wolfdown and the Rectory must (and do) monitor it before someone gets hurt. | |
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Adventurer Archaeologist | |
| Ordinary Time / int_bbd8d3f4 | comment |
Adventurer Archaeologist: Averted militantly. Try that on with Millicent Lacy-now-Taunton or Prof. Den Farnaby, you’ll be lucky to escape with your head. Some of the juniors at the Dig are rather too near to learning that the hard way. | |
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Is That Cute Kid Yours? | |
| Ordinary Time / int_bd3c4a33 | comment |
Is That Cute Kid Yours?: Sher and the Canon keep getting this when out with the Canon’s niece and ward. Deputy Headmaster Sher Mirza is increasingly unamused. | |
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Beleaguered Bureaucrat | |
| Ordinary Time / int_bd7d0416 | comment |
Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Several, including, in a sense, West Midlands Police; the Chief Constable and the Police and Crime Commissioner in Wilts; and the Crown Prosecution Service, among ’em. HM Revenue & Customs, on the other hand, have only themselves to blame. | |
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Mission Control | |
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Mission Control: What the Duke is reduced to being (though not resigned to being) in the murder case. | |
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Happily Married | |
| Ordinary Time / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Their Graces, now; Tariq and Ameena. Connie and Giles are … getting there. The Duke reflects that this is what ordinary life is meant to be in … er, ordinary times. | |
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? | |
| Ordinary Time / int_c1d1d6ad | comment |
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: The Lelands did. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Story Within A Story The bits we get of the Duke’s tales for children – and teens and parents, listening along – about Julian-and-Tullia, and the Maguire Twins’ bedtime stories … once the Hon. Gwen had intervened on hearing The Breener, having begun with “Once upon a time,� proceed to the moocow, Betty Byrne, and baby tuckoo. | |
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Jurisdiction Friction | |
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Jurisdiction Friction: West Midlands Police are treating the murder up there as routine, and think they have a bird in the hand with their suspect. The Duke, as an old Int Corps officer, disagrees; and when he’s made Vice Chairman of a Commission of Inquiry into terrorism links … well. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Ordinary Time / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Whole clamors of ’em. Including to some ongoing archaeological and historiographic debates, and to the views of, especially, Francis Pryor and Susan Oosthuizen. | |
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Non-Idle Rich | |
| Ordinary Time / int_c76f81b8 | comment |
Non-Idle Rich: Their Graces, and TH the Nawab and the Begum, and Sher’s parents, too. Just how non-idle the Duke is leaves Edmond shattered (see the “Day In the Life� entry, above). | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
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Rage Breaking Point: Sher, over the Village Concert solos. | |
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Iron Lady | |
| Ordinary Time / int_c91bf297 | comment |
Iron Lady: The only exceptions – Millicent; the deceptively fluffy Gemma Douty – are where what the silk is hiding, is steel. Otherwise, it’s more iron than the Industrial Revolution ever saw. | |
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The Chains of Commanding | |
| Ordinary Time / int_caf8c66c | comment |
The Chains of Commanding: Worn lightly but irritably by the Duke, who resents being shackled to a desk. Canon Paddick, naturally, finds his yoke easy and his burdens, light. | |
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Mistaken for Romance | |
| Ordinary Time / int_cc8109ab | comment |
Mistaken for Romance: Sher and Noel, yet again. | |
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Footnote Fever | |
| Ordinary Time / int_d05cf3f | comment |
Footnote Fever: From the Anglican rubrics to “Anglo-Saxon� place-names … there are almost fifty footnotes. | |
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World of No Grandparents | |
| Ordinary Time / int_d2771f82 | comment |
World of No Grandparents: The history of many families over the centuries, and particularly after 1918 and 1945, as is made achingly clear; and the Duke lampshades this in speaking of families with a tradition of service in HM Forces. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
| Ordinary Time / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Chessmaster (In-Universe): The Duke regards He Grace, and the Nawab, as being this; they reciprocate the compliment. Edmond is suspicious of all of them. The ISI’s Wg Cdr Iqbal believes himself to be one. | |
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Rotating Protagonist | |
| Ordinary Time / int_d959d421 | comment |
Rotating Protagonist: A consequence of there not really being one. | |
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Battle Butler | |
| Ordinary Time / int_d9d8fd35 | comment |
Battle Butler: As always, the Duke’s butler, Viney – “Mister� Viney to you, unless you’re the Duke or his family – and indeed all the staff at Wolfdown House; the Downlands farmer Alec Parham, descendant of old knights who held of and under the ducal forefathers, who is made Chief Steward and Master Forester of the old Honour (in addition to everything else, the Duke retains the old feudal, manorial rights as "Lord of the Downs" and can indeed make such appointments, cf. the Real Life Lord of Bowland / "Lord of the Fells'', ostensibly to supervise a census of ancient yews, and in fact to Keep An Eye On Things and report dirty dealings; and Lord Mallerstang’s valet, Jack Fothergill, late sergeant, King’s Own Royal Border Regiment, (nowadays the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border)). The Duke doesn’t deal in contrived coincidences: he appears when, where, and as needed because he hasn’t servants so much as he has a private intelligence network. | |
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The Blacksmith | |
| Ordinary Time / int_da4f8f0 | comment |
The Blacksmith: In cameo, Hector Cole MBE and Alec Steele, recreating a lost / Jean Tijou gate at the Rectory. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
| Ordinary Time / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: Explicitly lampshaded in Mr Justice Collingridge. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
| Ordinary Time / int_dfe57573 | comment |
Historical In-Joke: Innumerable. This is in many ways a novel about history, historians, historiography, archaeology, archaeologists, and the past, after all: with Decided Views, by the scholarly characters, on such controversies as whether there really was an Anglo-Saxon invasion-and-population-replacement. | |
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Everything's Louder with Bagpipes | |
| Ordinary Time / int_e08f95fd | comment |
Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: The pipe-and-drum flashmob at the ducal wedding; and in Sher’s mind after Burns’ Nicht as he tries to resist the itch to compose a Scottish Suite. | |
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Cast Full of Pretty Boys | |
| Ordinary Time / int_e3739de7 | comment |
Cast Full of Pretty Boys: Still going strong. Even if Rupe and Jamie are aging out towards [1]-dom, Hetty’s boyfriend Mark Grampound is joining the ranks; and then there are the younger guests at the ducal wedding.... | |
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The Hero | |
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The Hero: The Duke may be very nearly an ace, but if there were a hero, it might well be the Canon. But there isn’t one – unless it’s Britain herself. | |
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Hunk | |
| Ordinary Time / int_e54362ef | comment |
Hunk: Shelves of eye-candy. Get it wholesale. | |
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Despair Speech | |
| Ordinary Time / int_e8878c29 | comment |
Despair Speech: Sher, when he finally cracks under the strain. | |
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Britain Is Only London | |
| Ordinary Time / int_ea44cd34 | comment |
Britain is Only London: Averted, hard; and the ducal loathing of the place is only growing. | |
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Setting as a Character | |
| Ordinary Time / int_eaf84605 | comment |
Setting as a Character: If there’s an actual lead in the cast it’s the land and its history. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Ordinary Time / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Some of the Trendies, and very much the junior archaeologist Aubrey Leland. | |
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Honorary Uncle | |
| Ordinary Time / int_eba4e300 | comment |
Honorary Uncle: The Duke, to everyone, whether they like it or not, and to adventure-uncle / accommodating pawnbroker levels to the desperate. | |
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Asian Store-Owner | |
| Ordinary Time / int_ebf3c9d1 | comment |
Asian Store-Owner: Discussed mockingly by Sher’s father, when the Duke enlists him in a spot of intelligence work: | |
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Steam Never Dies | |
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Steam Never Dies: The Woolfonts & Chickmarsh Railway is going great guns; the Duke … Has Further Plans; and he muses to visiting scholars that he’d still have a working railway in the event of black-out apocalypse. | |
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Ensemble Cast | |
| Ordinary Time / int_ec212e4d | comment |
Ensemble Cast: Scores of them. If there’s a hero, well, Canon Paddick’ll tell you who it is, and he’s not really an on-page character; and don’t be misled into thinking anyone is the protagonist, least of all the Duke. If there is one, it’s the land as a whole. | |
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BassoProfundo | |
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Basso Profundo: The Duke, to oktavist levels: including in speech, when he is Making Things Very Clear to one. | |
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Inspector Javert | |
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Inspector Javert: The Crown Prosecution Service’s Ms Cashmore; DCI Beebee, West Midlands Police. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Do not cross the new Duchess, the former Professor the Baroness Lacy. | |
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British Humour | |
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British Humour: Passim, and extra dry. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Mildly, some of the “woker� young scholars. | |
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Crisis of Faith | |
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Crisis of Faith: Dr Jettou has one. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Six books, five full novels, in, the explanation of the otherwise twee toponym, Honey Coombe: that it was land temporarily given to the real and appalling royal toady Huna the Moneyer, by the useless / "King Edwy'' and got back by the Duke’s ancestors from the next king, Edgar the Peaceful: is finally given. In a footnote. | |
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Badass Preacher | |
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Badass Preacher: There’s hardly a single religious figure in the series who isn’t (not even the C of E’s Bishop Chubb and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton). This book adds a new one: Dr Amla, the South-African-born Maliki imam in Leeds, equally ready to lecture the Nawab and Mr Ali Khan Alvi Baig both. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Pathology, historiography, and archaeological techniques, check. | |
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