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Becoming a bard in 20th century America was not easy. O'Callahan started out as dean of a Boston secretarial school founded by his father. Eight years ago, a group of children at a camp asked him to tell them a story. He wove a druidic spell for 35 minutes, making up the story as he went along. It was about a creature in Russia that set upon other animals. "The impact was tremendous," he recalls. "Then and there I decided to give up my job and write novels." He and his wife Linda moved to rural Marshfield, Mass...
...seemingly final verbal spasm of a woman of 70 (Tandy) who recounts fragments of her life and concludes that even her suffering does not add up to much of anything. Only the woman's spotlighted mouth can be seen, along with a huge, silent druidic figure who flaps his arms from time to time in what may be compassionate annoyance...
Magog is a contemporary wizard -a civil servant whose vast power derives from the ritual manipulation of a bureaucracy that is every bit as arcane as any occult Druidic circle. With engaging arrogance he can honestly boast that "England waits at my out tray." As a highly informed fabulist, Sinclair romps through the same corridors of power that C.P. Snow shuffles through as an unimaginative realist. Myth, politics and culture are nimbly glossed as the author tells of Magog's rise to wealth and prestige. In 1948 Magog, as a specialist in foreign affairs, pays for his sack time...
Almost since the days when Druidic warriors daubed themselves with woad, the notion has persisted that British painting is a barbarous and insular affair. By and large, the thesis is correct -but there is an important century of exception. Between 1760 and 1860, when Britain swept to the forefront among nations, its painters were as engaged and influential as its soldiers and diplomats were at Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna...
...Wellington, Cleopatra, and Alfred the Great, not to mention such odd fictive figures as the Bagman and the Crook. In a novel of this picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds a bastard brother, and eventually learns his own name, Arthur George Griffin. A baleful woman named Maire...