![]() ![]() ![]() Now his guest, victim or dupe is one NicHolas Urfe, a young man out of Oxford with a "second class degree and a first class belief in (himself)." He has come to Greece after abandoning Alison with whom he has had an intense affair, Just short of love and trust. ![]() strange desires." He was a deserter in World war I, reputed to be a collaborationist in World War II he has great wealth and many gifts (hypnosis among them) and lives as a renaissance man in seclusion off a Greek island. The performance is a masque, or as admitted, the "godgame" of one Maurice Conchis "rich in forgotten powers. Elegances sensuousness and a very dressy erudition are all part of the equipment. If it can be said (and it may well be) that there is a certain amount of sham in the showmanship, still he manages to keep his reader captive Just as surely as he did in the butterfly net of The Collector even though this novel runs more than twice the distance. In the symbolism of the Tarot cards, the magus is a magician as well as a mountebank. ![]()
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