Word: trapnel
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...thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source of a film for Glober, a biography for Gwinnett...
...which Powell invests the whole of the book with parallels, variations and ironic reversals of this legend is wondrously rich and subtle. For the reader, however, the pleasure of tracing all these connections has a price: care, patience and a knowledge of several previous volumes. One of X. Trapnel's dicta was: "Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them." A half-truth, but never truer than with Powell. · Christopher Porterfield
...Flitton, as bitchy and beautiful as she is promiscuous. Widmerpool is backing Nick's magazine and its editor, a furtive, bibulous literary hack known in the trade as Books-Do-Furnish-a-Room Bagshaw. Pamela is backing a gifted, eccentric writer in the magazine's stable, X. Trapnel, to the extent that she leaves Widmerpool and moves in with him. Ultimately she destroys him and returns to Widmerpool, while the intrigues surrounding the liaison cost Bagshaw...
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