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up in a railway station while returning to moscow from siberia apparently related to the russian revolution konrad lived on until after the second world war the st anne and the rest of the crew were never heard from again author mudpuddle posted on january 27 2020 categories uncategorized 22 comments on in the land of white death ferdinand count fathom tobias smollett 1721 1771 fathom was born in a wagon while his mother was transiting between european battles in the early 1700 s she made a sort of living by selling gin and underclothes to the soldiers she followed the boy was named after her sixth husband and he was raised on brandy and camp food during a battle in the 1716 war against turkey fathom s mom rescued a colonel from death after a bloody engagement and in gratitude he adopted her and her son and took them to live with him in prague fathom was raised as one of the family as a sort of brother to the colonel s real son renaldo fathom early acquired a soft smooth social talent which enabled him to participate gracefully in public activities whereas renaldo the more intelligent of the two was rather inept and graceless at communal functions they were of the same age and at the appropriate time they were both sent off to university in vienna renaldo studied and succeeded as a student but fathom pursuing his nefarious ways fell into the hands of card sharps and learned how to fleece neophyte enthusiasts he managed to win most of renaldo s money in short order but gave it back to him just in order to demonstrate his non existent open handedness renaldo was called home to join his father in another war and fathom was left by himself in the city running low on money fathom befriended a jeweler s daughter wilhelmina and used her to extort money from the parents by various ruses one night he was almost caught in wilhelmina s boudoir by her father he climbed into the chimney to evade detection when the old man left he descended into the room covered with soot causing wilhelmina to scream at his sudden appearance convinced that the devil was paying her a visit several episodes of the sort transpire until fathom having attained a dubious reputation in the neighborhood absconded with some of the father s jewelry and a gold necklace belonging to the daughter he traveled to the military camp where renaldo and his father are preparing to fight the french in another war while the father and son behave heroically in the battle fathom pretended to be sick soon he was making money with his card sharpery and was accidently reunited with his tutor the reprobate who introduced him into evil ways in vienna and after a siege lasting six weeks the two having damaged their mutual characters in the army deserted to the french unfortunately french discipline was stricter than what they were used to so that they were actually forced into combat slightly wounded fathom and his friend subsequent to an armistice journeyed toward paris with the monies they d bilked from french soldiers while staying overnight in a village fathom hid his valuables mistrusting his friend s opportunism he was alone the next morning but his wealth was apparently untouched fathom proceeded on his way but got lost in a forest and was benighted in a lonely hovel during a severe storm he was locked into an attic with a dead body and realized that had fallen into the hands of murderers and thieves changing clothes with the corpse he fooled the outlaws and made his escape with his bag of lucre but he soon discovered upon examining his loot that his card sharp friend had actually stolen his acquisitions and replaced them with rusty nails fathom reaches paris at last with a small amount of money which he uses to entice several british tourists sir stentor and sir giles into card playing but he soon realizes that the two are better sharks than he is and they thoroughly fleece him distraught fathom lands a job as a violinist the reader learns at this point that fathom is an expert violinist and flautist with the opera orchestra one of his boarding house neighbors was ali beker a famished spaniard who tells him a tragic tale he was guilty of poisoning his wife and daughter because he felt dishonored by their rejection of his choice for the daughter s husband he also stabbed the interloper orlando and left him for dead while he fled the country being tired of supporting himself through music fathom takes a boat to england where his ventures continue along the same sorts of lines eventually he turns himself into a doctor and does quite well for a while curing patients by basically leaving them alone unlike medical practices at the time which seemed devoted to killing sufferers off in the shortest time possible and rifling their possessions and money soon his iniquitous behavior begins to darken his status however and he s forced into debt and spends time in king s bench prison meanwhile renaldo has made his way to london with the love of his life monimia fathom recently released is welcomed by the pair and is encouraged to continue his medical practice fathom falls for monimia and does everything in his power to split up the couple so he can have monimia to himself he lies cheats steals and finally manages to make them hate each other but his pursuit of monimia is fruitless as she is rescued by a nice lady ms clement renaldo has returned to europe monimia apparently dies from grief and is entombed in a local church at length renaldo becomes aware of fathom s perfidy and hastens back to london to throw himself on his sweetheart s grave but spoiler s ahead finds her alive instead she was rescued by ms clement and hidden from fathom s greedy clutches at this point fathom is on the point of death himself suffering total rejection by society for his evil ways everything turns out advantageously renaldo marries monimia and they forgive the repentant fathom ali beker turns out to be a spaniard named don diego do zelos and renaldo is revealed as orlando the victim of zelos wrath monimia is his daughter zelos marries ms clement and so forth this novel was not like the other ones smollett wrote it was really more of a polemic attack on the society found in london at the time smollett had been a naval surgeon in his earlier life and was familiar with the corruption underlying the prevalent medical practices particularly in the larger cities doctors nurses pharmacists and herbalists were all commonly intertwined in defrauding the ill by prolonging treatments and overcharging for services rendered in fact the book was a diatribe on human behavior in general detailing the widespread dishonesty of the upper classes in which double dealing cheating blackmail kickbacks and every conceivable crookedness apparently flourished he goes into quite a bit of detail explaining exactly how diverse illegal and immoral practices were perpetrated it was quite enlightening and casts a clearer view of society at the time smollett wrote and lived at about the same time as henry fielding and some of his rants were redolent of the latter s fulminations against landowners and politicians i can t say i enjoyed this book as well as some of his others i still like peregrine pickle the best although roderick random is also delightful but it certainly revealed smollett s anger over the criminal nature of the urban world he lived in and perhaps about human nature in particular his diary covering the last year or so of his life was the best indicator of his crankiness though he complained about inns coaches people who couldn t speak english diseases vermin and a host of other discomforts that tormented him in his travels but it must be said that he was in poor health and suffered pain from the terrible roads and inhospitable conditions obtainable at the time author mudpuddle posted on january 18 2020 categories uncategorized 22 comments on ferdinand count fathom conquistadors of the useless lionel terray 1921 1965 trans by geoffrey sutton lionel was obsessed with mountains as much as his parents tried to get him to do well in school it was a hopeless endeavour before he was ten he was roaming the woods near grenoble looking for rats to kill earning money for their skins and exploring every nook and cranny beyond the city limits both his parents had been explorers of a sort his mother having grown up in brazil as an energetic horsewoman taking delight in penetrating the local jungles and chacos his french father was large bubbling and enthusiastic he had a degree in chemical engineering and he met his wife while starting a business in brazil he abandoned the project when the first world war began and returned home to enlist later he obtained a degree in medicine when lionel was twelve his brother became ill and the family for a change of atmosphere took a vacation in chamonix in the heart of the alps lionel dashed about the valley investigating the slopes and glaciers taking his first hesitant steps toward rock climbing an older cousin arrived an experienced climber and the pair ascended the acolyte s first peak the aiguillette d argentiere a modest pillar of moderate height which familiarized lionel with ropes carabiners pitons and permitted his first attempt at rappelling back in grenoble the nearby vercors range drew him like a magnet his first experience there was almost the end of his career though because the rock is smooth limestone and lionel made the mistake of trying to climb it in hobnail boots which slid and scraped over the rock without catching on anything he progressed fairly well in spite of this handicap and worked his way up to a vertical crack that had a slight overhang near the top he found himself hanging on by his fingers above a long drop and only survived because he was able to perform a mantelshelf a move similar to exiting from a swimming pool lionel discovered skiing and devoted himself to the slopes whenever he could escape from school at the age of fourteen though he was back in chamonix thirsting for more climbing opportunities he met a friend there alan schmit and they hired a guide to take them up the grepon a lower skill level ascent commonly climbed by neophytes it was a disappointment however as the guide was in a hurry and didn t allow the two lads to do any climbing he just hauled them up the cliffs one after another lionel was so chagrined that he didn t do anymore climbing for five years instead he skied and became so proficient that he won awards and taught later in his life his parents separated and lionel was placed in a boarding school a severe one which he managed to get himself expelled from by firing a pistol off at midnight after attending another school he became independent in 1939 at the age of eighteen and supported himself with casual jobs muleteer porter to high camps ski instructor and carpenter he joined the civil service for a while until the war started then spent the next four years as a member of an alpine military squad climbing and skiing long distances in the process of making life uncomfortable for the germans and the italians he came under fire several times but never took the activity very seriously until he happened upon the scene of a mass german perpetrated slaughter of an entire village in northern italy he didn t allow himself to be overcome with hatred however he just resigned as soon as possible from his unit after the war he continued working in the civil service until he was admitted to the official guide s organization his skill and capabilities greatly improved in short order as he shepherded tourists and professional climbers up most of the popular routes in the chamonix area he had some close calls once while climbing near marseilles he peeled off his handholds and pulled out two pitons on the way down only being held by the third one on which the carabiner bent until it was just holding him by a mere fraction of an inch on the walker spur of the north face of the grand jorasses he achieved a sort of epiphany when he mastered an overhanging pitch by the use of a tension traverse a dubious process by which the climber leans laterally against the rope while reaching for a distant handhold the elation was so strong that he almost fell off louis lachenal was a well known climber with whom lionel teamed up for scaling some of the hardest climbs in the alps they did the north face of the eiger with only one bivouac only the second time it had ever been climbed and after numerous climbers had been killed trying to make the ascent as of today 64 have lost their lives trying to climb it terray continued climbing with lachenal and gaston rebuffat until they went to the himalayas on the 1950 expedition aimed at annapurna it was an arduous trek into the base of the mountain and even more difficult climbing it there was a movie made about the ascent publicizing the climbers and the mountain perhaps to an egregious extent lachenal and herzog lost fingers and toes in this first ascent of a 26 thousand foot peak lionel suffered from show blindness but the successful attempt inspired many nations to finance their own expeditions to the area resulting in an important source of income for the native sherpas and in improving the quality of life of many of the nepalese in general terray went on more himalayan expeditions and made victorious ascents in south america and alaska he became a well known figure world wide and achieved recognition as an intrepid and fearless leader with excellent judgment and ability so there was a sense of irony in the fact that he finally was killed falling off a moderately easy climb in the vercors range close to the town of his birth he and marc martinetti were roped together and when they neared the top for some reason they both fell so many climbers are killed by seemingly trivial accidents it makes one wonder at the courage it must take to pursue such a difficult art i don t know how good a writer lionel was in the original french but the translator sutton certainly was an accomplished wordsmith his descriptions of the mountains and the various accidents and successes are riveting for us armchair mountaineers he can t be beat author mudpuddle posted on january 11 2020 categories uncategorized 23 comments on conquistadors of the useless rubber legs and white tail hairs patrick mcmanus 1933 2018 this is a collection of the funniest short stories you ll ever read mcmanus was raised on a small more or less self supporting farm near sandpoint idaho he paid his own way through college doing construction work and taught english at eastern washington state college for twenty years then he wrote the first story features a new teacher at delmore blight grade school a young and enthusiastic miss deets one of pat s friends crazy eddy muldoon fell in love with her and at show and tell brought her a garter snake and a handful of night crawlers for a present miss deets resigned the next day pigs tells the tale of pat s first 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