I do not regard " blowing laboratories to smithereens" in the least amusing, and to suggest that M'Turk might be so involved is plain insulting to his memory
Peter Borcherds
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From: To exchange information and views on the life and work of Rudyard Kipling [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jane Keskar [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 December 2011 19:28
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Subject: Fw: Stalky & Co
An amusing comment on imaginary futures for Stalky and Co!
With best wishes,
Jane Keskar
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From: JM Syngamy<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 2:16 PM
Subject: Stalky & Co
Do you recall from ‘The Last Term’:
‘They looked out over the sea creaming along the Pebble Ridge in the clear winter light. ‘Wonder where we shall all be this time next year?’ said Stalky absently.
‘This time five years,’ said M’Turk.
Take the story even further forward. Imagine Number Five study persisting into the Thatcher era. What might they have become?
- M’Turk, ex-member of Hartopp’s Natural History Society and preserver of vixens, an animal rights’ activist abolishing ivory poachers and blowing laboratories to smithereens.
- Beetle rising in journalism to become a BBC inquisitor, with his gig-lamps and bow-tie (certainly not a tartan tie) holding to account Jelly-bellied Flag-flappers guilty of suppressio veri and suggestio falsi.
- And Stalky? Well, Stalky was destined to become a great man, probably end up running the War House, or the Defence Ministry as it’s known in these less candid times.
A spot of jesting with authority was ever their way, and is not Margaret Thatcher the greatest prefect of them all?
What a row that would be! Would she metagrobolise them, or would they make her cry ‘Capavi’?
The story of that scrimmage is told in ‘
The Iron Lady of the Western World
by J.M. Syngamy
It is available from Amazon<http://www.amazon.co.uk/IRON-LADY-WESTERN-WORLD-ebook/dp/B006ERKU3U/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_t_1>, either to a Kindle device or via a free app to your computer.
The tale has stayed untold till today. No enthusiast for Kipling should miss it.
It’s frabjous. ‘Pon my Sam it is.
JM Syngamy
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