From: Derek Bell <dbell@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Father Brown
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:16:13 +0100


[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

In message <199706140018.RAA11640@lists1.best.com>, m.driussi@genie.com writes:
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>If I remember right, Father Brown has a criminal sidekick for a few
>early stories, named Flammbeaux or something like that (a master
>jewel thief, or something like that).  A team of "cloth & crim" just
>like Silk and Auk. 

	Excellent! That's something that eluded me though I read those
stories myself! I think that the collection has roughly the first half
of the stories predating Flambeaux's alliance (conversion?) with
Father Brown. I don't remember looking up the publication order, so
I'm not sure whether the Flambeax & Brown tales were first.

>Well, we might argue that the 20th doesn't really start until the
>horrors of the Great War have destroyed the European aristocracy
>. . . works for Proust!)

	Perhaps the Trivigaunti/Ayuntiamento war is the first to break
Viron's class-ridden society? (I assume Trivigaunt has fought wars with other
statelets or even just skirmished with them.)

	Tercel