Word: venn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step with him and has created a Utopia-a world named New Crete, where, after Christianity has been destroyed by world wars, man has at last recognized the Goddess. The hero of it all is a Rugby-and Oxford-educated poet by the name of Edward Venn-Thomas...
Goodbye to the Dam. In fact, everything is so cream-smooth in New Crete that Poet Venn-Thomas wonders 1) if the magicians, who are vegetarians, wouldn't be better off with a few chunks of red roast beef and 2) why the Goddess ever brought him there...
...soon finds out, when the Goddess herself appears in the form of an unscrupulous female named Erica-a "triple-faced, ash-blonde bitch" with whom Poet Venn-Thomas had had a gruesome love affair in the Late Christian Epoch. What Erica does to overcivilized New Crete is something awful. She plants some 20th Century cigarettes in the closet of a cute little nymph named Sapphire; she fouls up the witches, hexes the horses, mortifies the magicians. By the time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides...
...Venn Thee Phon Peoples Said Ther New Book Was Conner Bea Whooper, Theys Werndt Kiddon. DeBouck, Holding 1,007,232 Names, Hasto, More Pages Than Last Dechambre's 2,060, Ashur Worlds Record...
...concerns the twisted relationship of two sisters, Rose and Ella Venn. The hatred between them, writes Author Cary, "had a very long history, almost as long as their devotion." Rose, "an obstinate old spinster, thin and black as a kitchen poker," has all the self-righteous cruelty of a woman whose happiness has been given up for others...