This Memoir is a work of fiction. Any similarity to events,characters or places in this book is ... more This Memoir is a work of fiction. Any similarity to events,characters or places in this book is either fictional, or the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons either dead or alive is purely unintentional. There cannot be a fixed idea of a person's character. The atoms in our body change completely every few years. Therefore, we are not the same person now as we were then. We cannot extrapolate from one age to another. If we are politically correct today, we were not so then. It would be like asking why the Mond Nickel works in Landore at the site of the present Liberty Stadium dumped thousands of tonnes of disused metals and other detritus on the land. Some friends have asked me why I call it a ‘Yawoo’ life. Yawoo is the way that Welsh people who drop their aitches pronounce Yahoo, is the only explanation that I can give. All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the permission of the author. The writer asserts his right as the author of this work.
This novel is a work of ‘faction’, that means it is a combination of fact and fiction. Any simil... more This novel is a work of ‘faction’, that means it is a combination of fact and fiction. Any similarity to incidents, events, famous personalities, or places in this book is either intentional, or otherwise haphazardly the product of the author’s imagination, so to speak. Resemblances to actual persons either dead or alive are purely intentional, but the protagonist Firoze Sasifzadeh, Hassan Sasifzadeh, Firoze’s uncle Ryszard, Bijan, Jonathan and the others are imaginary, but probably absorbed in the author’s mind by a process of assimilation. All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, downloading, or otherwise without the permission of the author. This book must not lent, resold, hired out without the permission of the author in any kind of binding, cover or jacket other than that which is authorised by Amazon in this edition. The paintings referred to in the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery are by Giovanni da Rimini, Van Eyck and the pre-Raphaelites, the Arnolfino couple, Cezane’s Les Grandes Baigneuses and the scene in Venus and Mars by Botticelli. That of Rider Haggard is by John Pettie. The exhibitions and shows at the Tate Modern are the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s ‘Inscription on the Wall (Reichstag)’, Don Mc Cullin’s social documentaries, ‘The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ and the paintings of Georgia O’Keefe. The writer asserts his right as the author of this work. Professor Geoffrey Clarke is the author of a number of books on literary fiction, Over his Shoulder, The Lingering Clasp of the Hand; a biography on the late–Victorian author Rider Haggard, a personal biography, A Yawoo Life, a work on English Literature and Islam and a novel about life in Swansea in the seventies entitled Swansea Sound. Educated at the University of Wales in 1962 with a B.A. Hons. in Education and a Post-graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). he received an MPhil at Hull university in 2005. With extensive teaching experience in many private and public sectors of education, he had varied lecturing, administrative and commercial experience in France and Britain and diplomatic roles in the Middle East. His time in Iran and Saudi Arabia where he was a lecturer and television presenter, led to a broadening of horizons and an increase in his presentation and broadcasting skills. Prof Geoffrey Clarke had unprecedented access to Saudi royal circles and close contacts with government.
In this Chapter I propose to introduce three authors for consideration: James, Conan Doyle and Co... more In this Chapter I propose to introduce three authors for consideration: James, Conan Doyle and Conrad. I will look at ‘The Turn of the Screw’ to try to exemplify how James refuses to convey to the reader the sexual nature of the misdemeanour that young Miles, the boy character in the story, has committed. I then examine The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to see how homosociality and collaboration figure in the work of the normally single writer, Conan Doyle. I move on to Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Sharer to examine ways in which it may be possible also to read single-authored books as structured to include bonding as integral to the theme of the work.
Although Darwin's theory of evolution has proved to be correct with regard to the relatively insi... more Although Darwin's theory of evolution has proved to be correct with regard to the relatively insignificant phenomenon of speciation, its larger claim to account for the relationship between the classes and orders, leave alone the origin of life. now rests, many would contend, on very insecure scientific premises indeed . More and more of his theories, such as the linking of birds and reptiles, are coming to seem increasingly like the fantasies of Wells and Huxley, rather than serious estimates of what occurred the beginning of life on earth.
Literary analysis: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell.
This earth-moving, ... more Literary analysis: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell.
This earth-moving, revivalist and revolution-making novel has the power to move governments, societies and grass roots organisations.
Set among the impoverished, turn-of-the-20th-century proletariat engaged in the building, decorating and painting trade, the novel, powerful, emotive and politically forceful, provides a harrowing, despairing look at such Western European workplaces.
The novel is a work of faction, that is it is a combination of fact and fiction. Rooted in the s... more The novel is a work of faction, that is it is a combination of fact and fiction. Rooted in the social history of Swansea in the sixties and seventies, it evokes sport, music, jokes, life stories and celebrities from the South Wales past.
Entrepreneurship is the process of creating a business often from a very simple idea. One thinks... more Entrepreneurship is the process of creating a business often from a very simple idea. One thinks of the hovercraft, the internet and organisations such as Virgin that have been groundbreaking business, ICT, digital and commercial ventures.
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By the twentieth century attitudes to Islam had begun to turn more in its favour. Sir George Bernard Shaw, the cranky, intrepid campaigner for social progress and Socialist thinker, ‘the irresponsible clown GBS’,[155] demonstrated a positive and prescient approach to the future of British Islam.
Moving in to the modern period we begin to find scholars who could look at Islam on its own terms... more Moving in to the modern period we begin to find scholars who could look at Islam on its own terms. Whilst nineteenth century writers are largely tarnished with the issue of imperialism, one or two of them like Rudyard Kipling, and his friend Rider Haggard, were largely able to escape a full-blown, imperialistic world view.
A book on the collaborative activity of writers in the late Victorian period that focuses on the ... more A book on the collaborative activity of writers in the late Victorian period that focuses on the homosocial nature of their collaborations has to take into account issues about what forms the nature of masculinities now, about the representation and social construction of manliness in the broadest sense, and about the need for the critic to imagine and shape new definitions of homoerotic expression, to produce an identity for masculinity despite the historical trappings of patriarchy, misogyny and homophobia. The male collaborative partnerships that these writers formed in the 1880s and 90s were actually breaking new ground in their definition of masculinities against the backcloth of a harsh, classical paternalism and patriarchy.
This Memoir is a work of fiction. Any similarity to events,characters or places in this book is ... more This Memoir is a work of fiction. Any similarity to events,characters or places in this book is either fictional, or the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons either dead or alive is purely unintentional. There cannot be a fixed idea of a person's character. The atoms in our body change completely every few years. Therefore, we are not the same person now as we were then. We cannot extrapolate from one age to another. If we are politically correct today, we were not so then. It would be like asking why the Mond Nickel works in Landore at the site of the present Liberty Stadium dumped thousands of tonnes of disused metals and other detritus on the land. Some friends have asked me why I call it a ‘Yawoo’ life. Yawoo is the way that Welsh people who drop their aitches pronounce Yahoo, is the only explanation that I can give. All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the permission of the author. The writer asserts his right as the author of this work.
This novel is a work of ‘faction’, that means it is a combination of fact and fiction. Any simil... more This novel is a work of ‘faction’, that means it is a combination of fact and fiction. Any similarity to incidents, events, famous personalities, or places in this book is either intentional, or otherwise haphazardly the product of the author’s imagination, so to speak. Resemblances to actual persons either dead or alive are purely intentional, but the protagonist Firoze Sasifzadeh, Hassan Sasifzadeh, Firoze’s uncle Ryszard, Bijan, Jonathan and the others are imaginary, but probably absorbed in the author’s mind by a process of assimilation. All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, downloading, or otherwise without the permission of the author. This book must not lent, resold, hired out without the permission of the author in any kind of binding, cover or jacket other than that which is authorised by Amazon in this edition. The paintings referred to in the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery are by Giovanni da Rimini, Van Eyck and the pre-Raphaelites, the Arnolfino couple, Cezane’s Les Grandes Baigneuses and the scene in Venus and Mars by Botticelli. That of Rider Haggard is by John Pettie. The exhibitions and shows at the Tate Modern are the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s ‘Inscription on the Wall (Reichstag)’, Don Mc Cullin’s social documentaries, ‘The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ and the paintings of Georgia O’Keefe. The writer asserts his right as the author of this work. Professor Geoffrey Clarke is the author of a number of books on literary fiction, Over his Shoulder, The Lingering Clasp of the Hand; a biography on the late–Victorian author Rider Haggard, a personal biography, A Yawoo Life, a work on English Literature and Islam and a novel about life in Swansea in the seventies entitled Swansea Sound. Educated at the University of Wales in 1962 with a B.A. Hons. in Education and a Post-graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). he received an MPhil at Hull university in 2005. With extensive teaching experience in many private and public sectors of education, he had varied lecturing, administrative and commercial experience in France and Britain and diplomatic roles in the Middle East. His time in Iran and Saudi Arabia where he was a lecturer and television presenter, led to a broadening of horizons and an increase in his presentation and broadcasting skills. Prof Geoffrey Clarke had unprecedented access to Saudi royal circles and close contacts with government.
In this Chapter I propose to introduce three authors for consideration: James, Conan Doyle and Co... more In this Chapter I propose to introduce three authors for consideration: James, Conan Doyle and Conrad. I will look at ‘The Turn of the Screw’ to try to exemplify how James refuses to convey to the reader the sexual nature of the misdemeanour that young Miles, the boy character in the story, has committed. I then examine The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to see how homosociality and collaboration figure in the work of the normally single writer, Conan Doyle. I move on to Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Sharer to examine ways in which it may be possible also to read single-authored books as structured to include bonding as integral to the theme of the work.
Although Darwin's theory of evolution has proved to be correct with regard to the relatively insi... more Although Darwin's theory of evolution has proved to be correct with regard to the relatively insignificant phenomenon of speciation, its larger claim to account for the relationship between the classes and orders, leave alone the origin of life. now rests, many would contend, on very insecure scientific premises indeed . More and more of his theories, such as the linking of birds and reptiles, are coming to seem increasingly like the fantasies of Wells and Huxley, rather than serious estimates of what occurred the beginning of life on earth.
Literary analysis: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell.
This earth-moving, ... more Literary analysis: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell.
This earth-moving, revivalist and revolution-making novel has the power to move governments, societies and grass roots organisations.
Set among the impoverished, turn-of-the-20th-century proletariat engaged in the building, decorating and painting trade, the novel, powerful, emotive and politically forceful, provides a harrowing, despairing look at such Western European workplaces.
The novel is a work of faction, that is it is a combination of fact and fiction. Rooted in the s... more The novel is a work of faction, that is it is a combination of fact and fiction. Rooted in the social history of Swansea in the sixties and seventies, it evokes sport, music, jokes, life stories and celebrities from the South Wales past.
Entrepreneurship is the process of creating a business often from a very simple idea. One thinks... more Entrepreneurship is the process of creating a business often from a very simple idea. One thinks of the hovercraft, the internet and organisations such as Virgin that have been groundbreaking business, ICT, digital and commercial ventures.
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By the twentieth century attitudes to Islam had begun to turn more in its favour. Sir George Bernard Shaw, the cranky, intrepid campaigner for social progress and Socialist thinker, ‘the irresponsible clown GBS’,[155] demonstrated a positive and prescient approach to the future of British Islam.
Moving in to the modern period we begin to find scholars who could look at Islam on its own terms... more Moving in to the modern period we begin to find scholars who could look at Islam on its own terms. Whilst nineteenth century writers are largely tarnished with the issue of imperialism, one or two of them like Rudyard Kipling, and his friend Rider Haggard, were largely able to escape a full-blown, imperialistic world view.
A book on the collaborative activity of writers in the late Victorian period that focuses on the ... more A book on the collaborative activity of writers in the late Victorian period that focuses on the homosocial nature of their collaborations has to take into account issues about what forms the nature of masculinities now, about the representation and social construction of manliness in the broadest sense, and about the need for the critic to imagine and shape new definitions of homoerotic expression, to produce an identity for masculinity despite the historical trappings of patriarchy, misogyny and homophobia. The male collaborative partnerships that these writers formed in the 1880s and 90s were actually breaking new ground in their definition of masculinities against the backcloth of a harsh, classical paternalism and patriarchy.
There is no excuse needed for basing this biography of Sir Henry Rider Haggard on the personal ac... more There is no excuse needed for basing this biography of Sir Henry Rider Haggard on the personal account of his literary life given in his own words in his autobiography, The Days of My Life. There can be no truer biography than that given by the first hand witness, the author himself. Of course, in my book, I have used memories provided by other family members, friends and colleagues to supplement his very full, subjective life story.
his novel is a work of ‘faction’, that means it is a combination of fact and fiction. Any simila... more his novel is a work of ‘faction’, that means it is a combination of fact and fiction. Any similarity to incidents, events, famous personalities, or places in this book is either intentional, or otherwise haphazardly the product of the author’s imagination, so to speak. Resemblances to actual persons either dead or alive are purely intentional, but the protagonist Watkin Davies, Mervyn Jenkins, Watkin’s wife Diane, Cliff and others are imaginary, but probably induced autobiographically in the author’s mind by a process of the assimilation of ideas.
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There cannot be a fixed idea of a person's character. The atoms in our body change completely every few years. Therefore, we are not the same person now as we were then. We cannot extrapolate from one age to another. If we are politically correct today, we were not so then. It would be like asking why the Mond Nickel works in Landore at the site of the present Liberty Stadium dumped thousands of tonnes of disused metals and other detritus on the land.
Some friends have asked me why I call it a ‘Yawoo’ life. Yawoo is the way that Welsh people who drop their aitches pronounce Yahoo, is the only explanation that I can give.
All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the permission of the author.
The writer asserts his right as the author of this work.
All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, downloading, or otherwise without the permission of the author. This book must not lent, resold, hired out without the permission of the author in any kind of binding, cover or jacket other than that which is authorised by Amazon in this edition.
The paintings referred to in the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery are by Giovanni da Rimini, Van Eyck and the pre-Raphaelites, the Arnolfino couple, Cezane’s Les Grandes Baigneuses and the scene in Venus and Mars by Botticelli. That of Rider Haggard is by John Pettie.
The exhibitions and shows at the Tate Modern are the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s ‘Inscription on the Wall (Reichstag)’, Don Mc Cullin’s social documentaries, ‘The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ and the paintings of Georgia O’Keefe.
The writer asserts his right as the author of this work.
Professor Geoffrey Clarke is the author of a number of books on literary fiction, Over his Shoulder, The Lingering Clasp of the Hand; a biography on the late–Victorian author Rider Haggard, a personal biography, A Yawoo Life, a work on English Literature and Islam and a novel about life in Swansea in the seventies entitled Swansea Sound.
Educated at the University of Wales in 1962 with a B.A. Hons. in Education and a Post-graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). he received an MPhil at Hull university in 2005.
With extensive teaching experience in many private and public sectors of education, he had varied lecturing, administrative and commercial experience in France and Britain and diplomatic roles in the Middle East.
His time in Iran and Saudi Arabia where he was a lecturer and television presenter, led to a broadening of horizons and an increase in his presentation and broadcasting skills. Prof Geoffrey Clarke had unprecedented access to Saudi royal circles and close contacts with government.
More and more of his theories, such as the linking of birds and reptiles, are coming to seem increasingly like the fantasies of Wells and Huxley, rather than serious estimates of what occurred the beginning of life on earth.
This earth-moving, revivalist and revolution-making novel has the power to move governments, societies and grass roots organisations.
Set among the impoverished, turn-of-the-20th-century proletariat engaged in the building, decorating and painting trade, the novel, powerful, emotive and politically forceful, provides a harrowing, despairing look at such Western European workplaces.
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By the twentieth century attitudes to Islam had begun to turn more in its favour. Sir George Bernard Shaw, the cranky, intrepid campaigner for social progress and Socialist thinker, ‘the irresponsible clown GBS’,[155] demonstrated a positive and prescient approach to the future of British Islam.
There cannot be a fixed idea of a person's character. The atoms in our body change completely every few years. Therefore, we are not the same person now as we were then. We cannot extrapolate from one age to another. If we are politically correct today, we were not so then. It would be like asking why the Mond Nickel works in Landore at the site of the present Liberty Stadium dumped thousands of tonnes of disused metals and other detritus on the land.
Some friends have asked me why I call it a ‘Yawoo’ life. Yawoo is the way that Welsh people who drop their aitches pronounce Yahoo, is the only explanation that I can give.
All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the permission of the author.
The writer asserts his right as the author of this work.
All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, downloading, or otherwise without the permission of the author. This book must not lent, resold, hired out without the permission of the author in any kind of binding, cover or jacket other than that which is authorised by Amazon in this edition.
The paintings referred to in the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery are by Giovanni da Rimini, Van Eyck and the pre-Raphaelites, the Arnolfino couple, Cezane’s Les Grandes Baigneuses and the scene in Venus and Mars by Botticelli. That of Rider Haggard is by John Pettie.
The exhibitions and shows at the Tate Modern are the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s ‘Inscription on the Wall (Reichstag)’, Don Mc Cullin’s social documentaries, ‘The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ and the paintings of Georgia O’Keefe.
The writer asserts his right as the author of this work.
Professor Geoffrey Clarke is the author of a number of books on literary fiction, Over his Shoulder, The Lingering Clasp of the Hand; a biography on the late–Victorian author Rider Haggard, a personal biography, A Yawoo Life, a work on English Literature and Islam and a novel about life in Swansea in the seventies entitled Swansea Sound.
Educated at the University of Wales in 1962 with a B.A. Hons. in Education and a Post-graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). he received an MPhil at Hull university in 2005.
With extensive teaching experience in many private and public sectors of education, he had varied lecturing, administrative and commercial experience in France and Britain and diplomatic roles in the Middle East.
His time in Iran and Saudi Arabia where he was a lecturer and television presenter, led to a broadening of horizons and an increase in his presentation and broadcasting skills. Prof Geoffrey Clarke had unprecedented access to Saudi royal circles and close contacts with government.
More and more of his theories, such as the linking of birds and reptiles, are coming to seem increasingly like the fantasies of Wells and Huxley, rather than serious estimates of what occurred the beginning of life on earth.
This earth-moving, revivalist and revolution-making novel has the power to move governments, societies and grass roots organisations.
Set among the impoverished, turn-of-the-20th-century proletariat engaged in the building, decorating and painting trade, the novel, powerful, emotive and politically forceful, provides a harrowing, despairing look at such Western European workplaces.
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By the twentieth century attitudes to Islam had begun to turn more in its favour. Sir George Bernard Shaw, the cranky, intrepid campaigner for social progress and Socialist thinker, ‘the irresponsible clown GBS’,[155] demonstrated a positive and prescient approach to the future of British Islam.
All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be stored in a retrieval system, or reproduced in any way or by means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the permission of the author.
The writer asserts his right as the author of this work.
The author recognises his sources as Ryan and Ronnie Williams, Max Boyce, Frankie Howard, Tony Hancock, Syd James, Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, Harry Seacombe, TT (Terry) Thomas, Jimmy Edwards, Tommy Cooper, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, and that inimitable joke collector of all time – Bob Monkhouse. Although too risqué for the period, I have included some material from Les Dawson, particularly about Watkin Davies’s mother in law. Quite out of time, I have been influenced, too, by Rhod Gilbert, the contemporary Welsh comedian and broadcaster.