(np) John Buchan

[Mark Kohut]

perhaps an interesting tidbit related to John Buchan. An early book is called
"Prester John", an adventure story about a mythical person of the 12th Century \
who had vast territorial holdings therefore wealth and power........
 
"prester john" was used as an examble in some---one?---philosophy classes I took to
explore the meanings of an unreal person who was thought to have existed.....
(for example, what is true or false and how---of an unreal but realistic 'person'. And worse)
 
Googling Google Books about him I see one book deals with "John Buchan and The Yellow Book", 
yellow (and yellow book) connections also in ATD (we think).............
 
There seems to have been one volume of 4 Hannay mysteries republished in 1990...perhaps the
editors considered them the best? 
 
Besides Greenmantle, which I know many considered perhaps the best, it seems the aforementioned
Prester John--but not a Hannay mystery and Mr. Standfast among others are well-liked........
 
 

From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 8:20 PM
Subject: (np) John Buchan

ok, he's in the preface to Slow Learner, and everybody's seen the 39 Steps

I was thinking of looking at some of his books.
Pynchon said some are even better than 39 Steps.
The guy was governor general of Canada!  I didn't know that.
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