[Book Review] Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews Alan Moore’s recent novel, set at the intersection between London and its otherwordly counterpart – and which features cameos from many famous occultists.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/11/review-the-great-when.html

#pagan #occult #bookreview #london #thegreatwhen #crowley #alanmoore

Recenzje fantastyczne:
»[Recenzja] „Wielkie Kiedy. Długi Londyn” Alan Moore«

Kto miał okazję zapoznać się z komiksami napisanymi przez Alana Moore’a, wie, z jaką pieczołowitością konstruuje on opowieści. To więcej niż precyzyjnie ułożone puzzle, których pojedyncze elementy znajdują właściwie miejsca w całym obrazie, bowiem nierzadko okazuje się, że na przykład pozornie przypadkowe sceny czy dialogi z początku fabuły stają się w pełni zrozumiałe dopiero na ostatnich kadrach. Analogicznie ma się sprawa z „Wielkie Kiedy”. To fantastyczna powieść rozgrywająca się w realiach powojennej Wielkiej Brytanii.

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/ksiazki/recenzje/fantastyczne/recenzja-wielkie-kiedy-dlugi-londyn-alan-moore/

#Fahrenheit_zin #recenzja #MaciejTomczak #CzarnaOwca #AlanMoore #recenzjaksiążki #AdamOsiński #WojciechSzypuła #WielkieKiedy #DługiLondyn #Echa #AdamMichajłów #BartoszSzpojda #NicoDelort #TheGreatWhen #LongLondon

Here's the names of the 14 Democrat Senators who voted to support #BernieSanders' resolutions to block billions of $US of military aid and weapons to #Israel on Thurs 3rd April, 2025.

#RichardDurbin
#MartinHeinrich
#MazieHirono
#BenRayLuján
#TimKaine
#AndyKim
#EdMarkey
#JeffMerkley
#ChrisMurphy
#BrianSchatz
#TinaSmith
#ChrisVanHollen
#ElizabethWarren
#PeterWelch
#NonGenocidalSenators

The others nowhere!
#TheGreatWhen

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/senate-democrats-cancel-military-aid-israel

In sheer happenstance, I have just sighted a volume that Mr Holmes may have been deeply familar with.

Club Life of London:
With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropoplis, During the 17th, 18th and19th Centuries

by John Timbs F.S.A.

In Two Volumes

Published 1866 by Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London

#SherlockHolmes #VictorianLondon #TheGreatWhen #JohnTimbs #RichardBentley #EighteenSixtySix

https://ia600102.us.archive.org/2/items/clublifeoflondon02timb/clublifeoflondon02timb.pdf

I met this book as an audiobook.

And haven't see the paperbook.

So I don't know how Ada's name was handled in the paperbook.

But the joke/surprise came over very well in audio.

#Homophone #TheGreatWhen #AlanMoore

In the scintilating opening vingettes, immediately after Ascot and the thin horse, Alan takes us to a rental that backs onto one of London's abandoned liberties.

Where better than a Oxford University PhD thesis, supradense, to read what a #Liberty is?

"The whole of The City of London and the Problem of the Liberties, c1540 - c1640" by Dr A. P. House.(2006 ?)
#APHouse.
#TheGreatWhen #AlanMoore #DissolutionOfTheMonasteries
Intro
http://ptomng.com/thesis/1intro.pdf

Listening to #TheGreatWhen on #Audiobook. (Well performed.)

Author #AlanMoore has included a (?) penultimate chapter on the late life of the main character, about 50 years after we get to know him.

Old age. Infirm. Resigned. On the border of terrified. Failed marriage with his true love heavy in memory.

And also the kicker.

Alone and isolated.

@caity

Listening very carefully as the imagery is (delightfully) demanding.

Have quickly run into a question about how to understand, "Although following that logic ... oh dear, you as well?"

Are trusting the author and continuing.
#TheGreatWhen