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  • Suffering

    • December 7, 2019
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      All narratives are in some way driven by conflict and its resolution.  Such conflict may not always be between individuals.  It could be the inner struggle of a single person or between people and natural forces.  An essential ingredient of that conflict, however, is suffering, in some form, both actual and potential.  Suffering stimulates
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  • Identity in action

    • November 2, 2019
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    A good example of how a character can edit the identity that they wish to portray to others (just as everyone does in their ordinary life, albeit not with quite the same dramatic consequences) is Bechard.  In The Shadows of the King - Part 1, we find him in the company of Guillaime, ‘Paul’, the
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  • Robert Damiens

    • September 28, 2019
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      Robert Damiens makes his appearance directly in The Shadows of the King – part 1 in only one double-page spread, although they are, graphically, amongst the most striking pages in the whole novel with their ingenious manipulation of space and time.  His attempt upon the life of Louis XV and his subsequent torture and
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