Comments | tightropegirl: Lord Peter Wimsey and the Golden Age

tightropegirl

Lord Peter Wimsey and the Golden Age

Jul 13, 2014 12:19

“I may say his views on women and the stage were such as I should have expected of a man who would smoke with your lordship’s port.” - Mervyn Bunter ( Read more... )

dorothy_sayers, peter_wimsey

Comments 18

sfmarty July 13 2014, 23:00:08 UTC

What a delight to see your phosphors again. Plus finding out the Whimsey series was continued.

tightropegirl July 14 2014, 01:00:08 UTC

Good to see you as well! You realize it's been 20 years since my first steps on Genie?

houseboatonstyx July 14 2014, 03:09:51 UTC

Well, I did not approve of the last Walsh at all. Is there reason to think that was what Sayers would have aimed at?

rissabby July 14 2014, 18:51:47 UTC

I paused in the middle of your essay to go to Thriftbooks and order Thrones, Dominations. I had read so many negative reviews of it in the past that I haven't ever read it. You convinced me to give it a chance.

Last year I re-read Clouds of Witness and the ad agency novel (the name escapes me at the moment). I was disappointed to find that after 30-some years the charms of the ad agency book had faded for me. Cloulds held up somewhat better, but still, I found myself mostly spot reading. I wonder if the old BBC TV series would hold up to a second viewing. That was what got me started on the books, and I'd love to see it again.

oracne July 14 2014, 19:13:01 UTC

NOM.

loligo July 16 2014, 21:33:51 UTC

I grew up in Grand Rapids, home of Calvin College, a conservative Christian school that nevertheless has a genuine commitment to serious scholarship. I had to write my very first English term paper in 10th grade, and I had just read the whole Lord Peter series that year and fallen completely in love with them (and with him). I went to the Calvin library as instructed by my English teacher and looked around for a topic. I discovered that they had entire books of non-fiction essays by Sayers -- theology, feminism, and more -- as well as her plays and her Dante translations. I ended up writing about how her ideas about the sacredness of work played out in her detective novels. I wish I knew where that paper ended up (it was written a few years before the era of computers in every home), because I would love to share that experience with 15 year-old me again ( ... )