“got to be good-looking because he’s so hard to see / come together right now over me”

[larryhammer]

Speaking of Sayers’ writing ability, as a name of a Victorian bust decorating an Oxford college hall, the Reverend Melchisedek Entwistle is just about pitch perfect.

(Gaudy Night, end of chapter 9)

(Yes, I did have to look up who Melchizedek was.)

---L.

Subject quote from Come Together, The Beatles.

Comments

[cmcmck]

King of Salem was he not?

[larryhammer]

Yup, and high priest.

[movingfinger]

and Sara Crewe's mouse

[larryhammer]

Apparently I eventually need to read A Little Princess.

[pauraque]

My thoughts exactly!

[sovay]

Speaking of Sayers’ writing ability, as a name of a Victorian bust decorating an Oxford college hall, the Reverend Melchisedek Entwistle is just about pitch perfect.

I believe the first Melchizedek/Melchisedec I encountered was the rat that Sara tames in A Little Princess.