LPPM MMV "A John Buchan Hero"

[Dave Monroe]

"... gaunt and looking a little like a John Buchan
hero even at thirteen ..." (MMV, p. 1)


"a John Buchan hero"

Cf. ...

"I was also able to steal, or let us say 'derive,'
in more subtle ways.  I had grown up reading a lot of
spy fiction, novels of intrigue, notably those of John
Buchan.  The only book of his that anyone remmebers
now is The Thirty-nine Steps, but he wrote half a
dozen more just as good or better.  They were all in
my hometown library.  So were E. Phillips Oppenheim,
Helen MacInnes, Geoffrey Household, and many others as
well.  The net effect was to build up in my uncritical
brain a peculiar shadowy vision of the history
preceding the two world wars.  Political
decision-making and official documents did not figure
in this nearly as much as lurking, spying, false
identities, psychological games." (SL, "Intro," p. 18)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72963

John Buchan (1875-1940)

http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5084/Buchan.htm

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/buchan.htm

http://www.slainte.org.uk/scotauth/buchadsw.htm

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/John_Buchan.htm

For portrait, see ...

http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/b/john-buchan-190x297.jpg

And see as well ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0212&msg=73861



	
		
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