Surprisingly, and annoyingly, the Spambots are still buzzing around. Recently they have been attacking a post on this page from June 19, 2013 -- I can't think why. This was the one that said that the 1934 film of The Fountain could still be found on eBay, on a Spanish DVD. In recent weeks, it has attracted, at last count, 697 "comments", mostly from Indonesia. Dotster tells me these cannot be removed in bulk, only one by one. As life's too short, I replaced the post's text by "SPAMPOT" so that it can go on quietly attracting Spamflies that might otherwise infest the rest of the site. And I have changed the settings so that new Comments will have to go through a Captcha system.
My very first Morgan novel, read when I was 16 or 17, was The Judge's Story, and it made me an instant Morganian. It is short, clear, and gripping. All the more reason, then, to publish Nigel Jackson's latest essay, which deals with it; and we do so today, on the Nigel Jackson page of the "Discussions" section. As part of his argument enters into debate with Henry Charles Duffin's treatment of the novel, we will see if it is possible to reprint at least part of Duffin's text also in that section: a real discussion will have been begun, to which readers, as always, are invited to continue via this blog-style page.
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