I GOT A BOOK out the library and stayed up all night reading it. The author is a kind of friend of a friend of mine... hopefully soon to be Conservative MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire at the next General Election. I have watched her career with interest and wish her all the very best. Louise Bagshawe "the Judith Krantz de nos jours" Her novel Glitz: four ditzy heiresses get in trouble when their evil uncle cuts them off. The resulting fight with Thai prostitute Bai-Ling takes them into all manner of adventures ~~ how I love a good read about rich people who hate each other!
The plot reminds me of another British pop novel that had me rivetted: The Moneymakers by Harry Bingham ~ in that book the owner of a cement mixture (or something unexciting) empire dies and leaves his would-be heirs a challenge: whoever can make the most money in the space of something like five years inherits his £20 million fortune. There was a strong religious undertone in that one, e.g. the baddie's name was James Belial ~ Belial rang a bell... isn't it a demonic name? ... And when they met in a London bar named Apollyon ~ I knew for sure. Apollyon is the name of the Angel of the Abyss in Revelation ... very scary!
I just looked up Belial and it is indeed a demonic name... written up in the Bible as "the sons of the uncircumcized"... but a big character in traditional demonology (where I suspect my knowledge came from)... Wikipedia says Belial is a demonic name mentioned in II Corinthians 6:15 "can Christ and Belial agree?"... but I don't think that's where I know the name from... which is kind of spooky? I've read some weird books in my time... but where on earth would I first come across a name like that?
Well I did have a fascination in the "new age" (ie occultism and the "dark arts" for quite some years... and was drawn to read some quite eerie tomes in years past, that's all I can say on the matter... Maybe I have sleep deprivation: it's too much cotton-rich socks, or my brains are frazzled... I'd better go and "retire" for now...!
PS Here's a photo of Louise Bagshawe: with looks like that (remember I said she was a friend of a friend ~ I've never met her ~ why on earth her publishers didn't make an inside-cover of that lovely face I've no idea...!Illustrated: Louise Bagshawe's Glitz; Harry Bingham's The Moneymakers; Belial's mouth propped open in a demonic donkey-derby; The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic "as revealed by Israel Regardie"... which used to be my bedtime reading in one long-lost era... the beautiful Louise Bagshawe...
Моя стохастическая рефлексия - блог об аналитике, рассматриваются как современные проблемы, так и переосмысливаются давние.
ReplyDeleteМ, очень увлекательный пост. Откуда вы взяли информацию, если это не тайна? Я как ни странно этим увлекаюсь. Извините, что занимаю ваше время. Безусловно, в не столь легкое время, время это деньги. А где деньги, там инвестиции. Опять ушел от обсуждаемой проблемы. Буду точен, не опубликуете ли как-нибудь статью о мировой валютно-финансовой системе? Ладно, хорошо, я пошутил. Пиши о чем желаешь, тем более у тебя отлично получается! Спасибо! Удачи в нелегком деле!
ReplyDeleteTo that I think I'll say...
ReplyDeletea big NYET!!
OK this is what it says via Google's Russian to English translation:
ReplyDeleteMy stochastic reflection - a blog about analytics, are regarded as contemporary problems and reinvented old.
16 December 2009 19:34
Anonymous said ...
M, a very exciting post. Where did you get the information if it is not a secret? I am strangely fascinated by this. Sorry, that occupy your time. Of course, not so easy time, time is money. And where is the money they invest. Again left the problem. It would be accurate, not to publish it as any article on the world monetary system? Okay, okay, I was joking. Write about what you want, the more you have excellent results! Thank you! Good luck in the difficult task!
So I spose I should say whatever Danke Schon is in Russian...