{"id":578,"date":"2024-09-01T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T19:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/01\/more-on-baron-corvo\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T19:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T19:21:40","slug":"more-on-baron-corvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/01\/more-on-baron-corvo\/","title":{"rendered":"More on &#8216;Baron&#8217; Corvo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A. J. A. Symon&#39;s <em>Quest for Corvo<\/em> (1934) has me in its grip. It is an intriguing exercise&#0160; in literary pathography whose subject is an English eccentric of the first magnitude. I&#39;m on p. 222. Today I came across a high-class literary site, <a href=\"https:\/\/1890s.ca\/about\/\">The Yellow Nineties<\/a>, whereat I read <a href=\"https:\/\/1890s.ca\/rolfe_bio\/#:~:text=Graham%20Greene%20praised%20Rolfe%20as,(%E2%80%9CFrom%E2%80%9D%20134).\">this entry<\/a> about our man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Thanks again to Hector C. for referring me to this oddball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#39;ve got a whole <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/questers-and-other-oddballs\/\">category<\/a> on oddballs. (68 entries and counting)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. J. A. Symon&#39;s Quest for Corvo (1934) has me in its grip. It is an intriguing exercise&#0160; in literary pathography whose subject is an English eccentric of the first magnitude. I&#39;m on p. 222. Today I came across a high-class literary site, The Yellow Nineties, whereat I read this entry about our man. Thanks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/01\/more-on-baron-corvo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on &#8216;Baron&#8217; Corvo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,296,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters","category-literary-pathography","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}