Comments on: Azed 1808 – Pearst off

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ilancaron — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:05:13 +0000

I think that Azed would have alluded to Hardy, even obliquely, if this was the intention.

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roland — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:56:39 +0000

Arabella Donn was a barmaid who let all the blokes in the bar buy her drinks… I suppose it is a bit of a stretch.

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ilancaron — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:24:18 +0000

hmm… well, seems a bit obscure. I haven’t read it, is the character particularly “easily treated”?

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roland — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:39:01 +0000

I had a feeling that Arabella was a reference to the appalling Arabella Donn in “Jude the Obscure”. a novel which Azed, as an Oxford man, might favour…?

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ilancaron — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:33:35 +0000

linxit: interesting… so, Andrew doing double duty?
chris: thanks. I’ll update

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Chris — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:43:27 +0000

Thanks – isn’t the clue about Scotch OK 12 rather than 13? (Not that it matters really…)

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linxit — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:01:37 +0000

21dn - I read it as T (cross), Y (last letter of cruelty), inside MARR (Andrew Marr, the journalist.