Small World (2)}[21st February 1988]

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Another* co-incidence between [2] and David Lodge's 'Small World'** – part V, televised tonight: the T.S. Eliot Rag in the streets of Lausanne, resonating strongly with the artistic occupation of the University in [2]. I suppose that the Percy/Perceval/Perseus pun, and the Fisher (King), follow from the Grail theme; I can't really see how Sybil (Maiden) does, however, or this latest example. Oh, well, these things are sent to try us....

I suppose that the contrast of Angelica*** and her twin sister, Lily, who makes pornographic movies, is similar to the contrasts of +K's nature in [1]****, Outer and Inner Circle; and although I don't think the anagram [A?] GIRL/GRAIL had occurred to me, the primary Grail symbol, the Cup, is of course at the centre of the female hemisphere. (Come to think of it, 'GRAIL' is not too far from an anagram of GAbRIeL....)

There, as they say, the similarity ends (I hope).

*[See [Redbook5:17][19880214:2326b]{Small World (1)}[14^th February 1988].]

**[David Lodge, 'Small World: An Academic Romance' (1984)]

***(whose life is literary study)

****[later revised]

[See [Redbook5:17][19880214:2326b]{Small World (1)}[14^th February 1988];

[Redbook5:21][19880229:0045]{Small World (3)}[29^th February 1988];

[Redbook5:21-22][19880229:0940]{Small World (3) [continued]}[29th February 1988];

[Redbook5:49-50][19880312:2005c]{The Grail Quest Circle}[12th March 1988].]

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