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...kinds of priests and priests are kinds of doctors. Priests are kinds of poets as well, and Dr. Hullah begins to think about writing his great "Anatomy of Fiction." What else could we expect? Esme Barron and Conor Gilmartin, as well as Hugh McWearie, reappear from Davies' last novel, Murther and Walking Spirits; old Dunstan Ramsey steps out of The Deptford Trilogy for rather a lengthy visit, joined as well by his friend Boy Stanton (referred to in passing and not named, though the description matches the sugar baron), and we visit Salterton, site of Davies' first trilogy...
Robertson Davies' new book Murther and Walking Spirits begins with this epigraph: "Printers finde by experience that one Murther is worth two monsters, and at least three Walking Spirits... where Murthers and Walking Spirits meet, there is no other Narrative can come near...
Thankfully, Davies' writing is sharp and talented enough that this epic saga is neither heavy-handed nor ceremonious. The narrative moves swiftly and fluidly from film to film, generation to generation. Davies' flexibility with time and use of the posthumous film festival keep Murther and Walking Spirits from being a pedestrian account of family history...
...with the damn thing." More than one mother complained that she would miss cleaning the smudges her children made on the TV screen when they kissed the Kuklapolitans good night. To the chief programmer of NBC (and former ABC president) came a letter from Adlai Stevenson: "Surely such assassination, murther and mayhem cannot be permitted in this enlightened land...
...deal with such diverse subjects as witchcraft, "worship of any other God but the Lord God," adultery, and "murther." They represent, says Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, "the most extreme effort of the Puritans to base their laws on the Bible and to get away from the common law of England...