From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
> I place Banks in the Ettrick Shepherd tradition--like the Hogg of 3 perils
> of Man--
I always wondered where this came from, Michael Scott locked in a burning
niche in hell, with a bar of ice through his head and another through his
heart. ***
Dante, maybe? Or the other Scott's Lay?
Hogg's Michael Scott was more comic than menace.
... but then there's also the 3 Perils
of Women.
Gil Martin
*** Rachel Annan Taylor in a singularly third-rate book on William Dunbar,
the one memorable sentence in it.
I have it in my head somewhere that Duncan McCrea starred as Scott in a
fifties radio play wherein Scott flew a clippership through hell.
But I may be hallucinating.
Like Robert Wringhim
R.
{Sheesh, I've just realised where D.M.Black got the idea of:
Faintly and everywhere, and the Red Judge walked
O thirty feet high and scarlet towards our stop.
... from.
The statue outside that place in Ebinbro where the Kirk used to hold the
General Assembly.
Nox }
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