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Again the novel's narrator is Darley, a seedy, itinerant Irish schoolteacher. Again the plot concerns his sexual and soulful involvements with Justine, a feline Egyptian Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions...
Space & Time. In Justine, Narrator Darley drew what he thought were final conclusions from his own experience: he supplied answers as he saw them to Justine's nymphomania, Nessim's seeming complaisance and incipient madness, Melissa's tortured love. In Balthazar, an all-seeing, cabalistic doctor gives a rude shake to this picture and, as in a kaleidoscope, all the parts fall into radically changed patterns. Darley learns that Justine only pretended to love him, that he was used as a decoy to conceal her passion...
...thoroughbred is a member of a specific breed of running horse, pedigreed descendants in, the direct male line to one or other of three specific "founding fathers"-the Byerly Turk, imported into England in 1689, the Darley Arabian, in 1704, the Godolphin Arabian, in 1728.* All other "pedigreed" animals, whatever their genus, species, breed or variety, are "purebred" or "standardbred." Racing harness horses, pacers or trotters are standardbreds, no matter how much thoroughbred blood may have been used in that breed's creation. All dogs which are not cross-breds or mongrels, but members of established recognized breeds...
Professor Allan Marquand has presented the Princeton College library with thirty drawings in India ink and sepia of subjects from Shakespeare, by F. O. C. Darley. These drawings were prepared in behalf of the Darley-Shakespeare Society, and the proceeds of the sale are to be used in erecting a monument to Shakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon...