A Flash for S&B
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groblek and kay_gmd, I had one of my usual wandering conversations (well, we all three did), where you start one at point A, get to point B, and forgot where point A was.
I found it.
Point B was explaining Harry Flashman a fictional creation of George McDonald Frasier, and the source of the wonderful scoundrel who invades the honorable environs of the Adventurers Club in London every Christmas season.
And yes,groblek, the Wikipedia article does mention that Pratchett is a Flashman fan...and yes, there IS Rincewind. Oddly, this article does not mention Lord Flasheart of the Black Adder series, on of the most definite and acknowledged homages to this series (the character and series started in 1969).
And Point A? Because we started out discussing characters, such as Sherlock Holmes, that some people have come to believe was real.
From The Washington Post obit, 2008:
"When the first novel in the series appeared, "Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842," Mr. Fraser claimed to have edited manuscripts he had found at a household sale.
Several critics were initially taken in by the ruse and believed that the stories were drawn from a lost cache of authentic memoirs. But the character of Harry Paget Flashman originally appeared as a bully in "Tom Brown's Schooldays," a popular Victorian boys' book that Mr. Fraser read as a child. The story flagged whenever Flashman left the stage, Mr. Fraser noted, so he made the irrepressible rogue the central figure of his novels."
groblek and kay_gmd, I had one of my usual wandering conversations (well, we all three did), where you start one at point A, get to point B, and forgot where point A was.I found it.
Point B was explaining Harry Flashman a fictional creation of George McDonald Frasier, and the source of the wonderful scoundrel who invades the honorable environs of the Adventurers Club in London every Christmas season.
And yes,
groblek, the Wikipedia article does mention that Pratchett is a Flashman fan...and yes, there IS Rincewind. Oddly, this article does not mention Lord Flasheart of the Black Adder series, on of the most definite and acknowledged homages to this series (the character and series started in 1969).And Point A? Because we started out discussing characters, such as Sherlock Holmes, that some people have come to believe was real.
From The Washington Post obit, 2008:
"When the first novel in the series appeared, "Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842," Mr. Fraser claimed to have edited manuscripts he had found at a household sale.
Several critics were initially taken in by the ruse and believed that the stories were drawn from a lost cache of authentic memoirs. But the character of Harry Paget Flashman originally appeared as a bully in "Tom Brown's Schooldays," a popular Victorian boys' book that Mr. Fraser read as a child. The story flagged whenever Flashman left the stage, Mr. Fraser noted, so he made the irrepressible rogue the central figure of his novels."
