Gray Robert Brown

This idea of the messianic Gabriel is like that.

And she twists it by making him ugly.

And she talks all the time about how ugly he is.

Yes, she does.

And yet his...

His passion and his charm is so beautiful, it's so compelling for so many in the community.

You know, people feel he cares and the little chat they have where he basically confesses to premeditated... premeditated?

wanting to get a VC, a Victory Cross, when he joined up.

And Hugh, quite snarkily, a bit later, says, most VCs are posthumous.

Which I'm sure is Westbrook's way of going.

He wishes he was dead.

Or certainly gone.

And there's that brilliant bit, isn't there, where there's the character of Mrs. Burt, who also is one of many who idolizes John Gabriel.

And Westmacott writes, Mrs. Burt was looking at John Gabriel, seeing him against a background of no particular place, just as a figure against a war landscape, desert, heat, shots, blood, staggering over open country, a film landscape like the picture she'd seen last week.

You know, to depict him like the sort of ultimate war hero that Agatha has probably seen in a flick at the Paint and Picture House just down the road from St.

Lou is really evocative.

And it made me think about how much more filmic prose is becoming in this period.

Now we're moving into this point where films are so much more ubiquitous.

Yeah, I like the way they continually refer to, so Lady Drusillian, who's I guess the classiest.

that we have in the book.