Re: Sinclair By Updike

["Mike Sinclair" <sinclair@avicom.net>]

For those of you interested in the novelist John Updike's observations of
the Sinclair ancestral grounds in Scotland, at least as seen through his
fictional character, Henry Bech, see Updike's novel, Bech Is Back, the
chapter entitled "Macbech", pp. 90-103.   A sample:  "Burdened by baggage as
he was, Bech felt lifted up, into the airy and the epic.  Scotland seemed at
a glance ancient, raw, grimy, lush, mysterious, and mannerly.  Like Bech it
was built solid of disappointments.  Lost causes abounded."

Mike Sinclair, Bozeman, Montana

-----Original Message-----
From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>
To: sinclair@mids.org <sinclair@mids.org>
Date: Sunday, February 06, 2000 1:15 AM
Subject: Sinclair Dates


>
>   [1]Sinclair Dates:  February 6. In 1685: Charles II d..
>   In 1952: George VI d.. King of Britain dies.
>   [2]Tomorrow:  February 7. In 1685: James VII. (II of Engl.), a
>   Catholic.
>   In 1885: Sinclair Lewis b.. Novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel
>   Prize 1930).
>   In 1952: Elizabeth II. Queen of Britain.
>
>References
>
>   1. http://www.mids.org/sinclair/timeline.html
>   2. http://www.mids.org/sinclair/timeline.html
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