V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Bastardized?

[Michael Bailey]

a-and Stencil's gonna go to Valletta!  "Of course."

I really must finish reading Adams's _Education_, because although I
believe you when you say Stencil channels Adams to a large degree,
there is next to no Adams in my perception of Stencil.

Was it posted or did I just happen across a link the other day to a
tale of an Englishman, world traveler, who set up housekeeping near
Niagara Falls, extended a week's stay to a month, then a year, was
seen often wandering near the Falls, and one day fell in and drowned?

There's a bit of that in Stencil for me, if he ever settles down he'll
be in danger of such a fate: "the wandering Brit"

also, maybe a touch of Auden and Isherwood, for some reason.  They
spent some time in the USA, I guess, and had quests of their own, and
were prone to speculations.  Then too, that Robert Graves during his
White Goddess period, obviously the V. quest supports and parodies
that excursion.

Maybe a bit of Orwell, assessing Britain's colonial legacy, seeking
out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go?  Maybe some Graham
Greene, since Stencil did have, during the War, a period of actual
involvement in the diplomatic and espionage business that some of
Greene's writing is about.

Also that priest in _Night of the Iguana_ who lost his vocation -
Stencil's vocation being similarly lost.

Then too, as he's getting shot in the butt by Profane, he's a figure of fun...

Adams may be just what I need to tie these impressions together?