The key suspect, a (pronounced as [ei]) Justin Time, before hiding away, testified as follows:
'As you know, I'm a literary character from Ma.Ste.'s 'Pro-Vocation'. I stole the buk from him and then he stole it back. It was self-written for some time and now is self-published. Since Ma.Ste. has read almost everything by William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Ralegh, Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Thomas Campion, John Lyly, Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, George Chapman, John Milton, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, John Dryden, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Locke, Samuel Johnson, William Collins, Thomas Gray, William James MacPherson, Samuel Richardson, Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Robert Burns, William Blake, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Wiliam Godwin, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Moore, George Gordon - Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jane Austen, Alfred Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), Charles Kingsley, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Thomas William Robertson, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Bridges, John Masefield, Rupert Brooke, William Butler Yeats, Alfred Edward Housman, William Henry Davies, Oscar Wilde, Charles Montague Doughty, James Elroy Flecker, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Gordon Bottomley, Ralph Hodgson, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Lionel Pigot Johnson, Padraic Colum, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Andrew Lang, Henry Austin Dobson, Arnold Bennet, Joseph Conrad, Ford Maddox Ford, George Gissing, Edward Morgan Forster, Herbert George Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Eden Phillpotts, Hilaire Belloc, Walter Pater, Arthur Conan Doyle, May Sinclair, Hugh Walpole, George Moore, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Forrest Reid, Maurice Hewlett, William Wymark Jacobs, Somerset Maugham, Sir Arthur Pinero, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Henry Arthur Jones, Sir James M. Barrie, William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, Edith Sitwell, Edmund Blunden, William Empson, W.H. Auden, Thomas Stearns Eliot, David Herbert Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Henry Green, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, V.S. Pritchett, Walter de la Mare, John Boznton Priestlez, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, E.M. Compton MacKenzie, Joyce Cary, A.J Cronin, Ivy Compton Burnett, David Garnett, James Hanley, Richard Hughes, Christopher Isherwood, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Margaret Kennedy, George Orwell, Sean O'Casey, Donald Davie, Ted Hughes, R.S. Thomas, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Thom Gunn, Roy Fuller, William Plomer, Gavin Ewart, Charles Causley, D.J. Enright, Lawrence Durrell, Vernon Watkins, Dannie Abse, Patricia Beer, John Wain, Edwin Brock, Nathaniel Tarn, George MacKay Brown, Vernon Scannell, Laurence Lerner, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian Crichton Smith, Kingsley Amis, David Wright, Charles Tomlinson, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Peter Porter, George MacBeth, Ian Hamilton, Alan Brownjohn, Jeff Nuttall, David Wevill, John Fuller, Henry Graham, Jon Silkin, Michael Horovitz, Anthony Thwaite, Geoffrey Hill, Tom Walker, Christopher Logue, A. Alvarez, Michael Longley, Brian Jones, Hugo Williams, Barry MacSweeney, Adrian Mitchell, Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Lawrence Durrell, Iris Murdoch, C.P. Snow, Patrick White, Samuel Beckett, Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, Anthony Burgess, William Golding, Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing, L.P. Hartley, Pamela Hansford Jonson, John Braine, V.S. Naipaul, Nancy Mitford, Elizabeth Taylor, P.H. Newby, Kingsley Amis, Margaret Forster, Malcolm Lowry, Olivia Manning, Nadine Gordimer,, Malcolm Bradbury, H.E. Bates, William Sansom, Allan Sillitoe, Edna O'Brien, Margaret Drabble, James Hanley, Frank Sargeson, John Masters, Stanley Middleton, Mervyn Jones, Kamala Markandaya, Rosamond Lehman, William Cooper, Paul Scott, Christine Brooke-Rose, Janet Frame, William Trevor, Laurens van der Post, Roy Fuller, Gerald Hanley, Colin MacInnes, Brian Moore, R.K. Narayan, Emyr Humphreys, Francis, Henry King, John Hearne, Keith Waterhouse, Mordecai Richler, Thomas Hinde, Dan Jacobson, Michael Anthony, Thomas Keneally, John Fowles, Frederic Raphael, James Gordon Farrell, Angela Carter, David Lodge, Susan Hill, John McGahern, Robert Liudell, Helen Gardner, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Hoggard, Frank Kermode, H.W. Garrod, J. Bullough, Lord David Cecil, Walter Allen, Colin Wilson, John Press, Geoffrey Leech, David Daiches, Donald Davie, Muriel C. Bradbrook, Raymond Williams, Archibald MacLeish, Northrop Fry, E.M.W. Tillyard, V.S. Pritchett, Cecil Day Lewis, Arnold Kettle, F.L. Lucas, L.C. Knights, Frank Swinnerton, Barbara Hardy, John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Harold Pinter, John Whiting, John Arden, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, Jane Alexander, and many others - he probably knows more about British and Irish literature than many publishers and editors, not to mention agents. Last year he started that extremely interesting thread: 'Hypersincere Grotesque Flamboyance', discussing nuts and bolts of writing in general, and his own original style in particular. Unfortunately, someone (was it Rik System or one of the anatomists - by pressing the 'abuse' button) deleted it.
Now I'm writing my own novel: 'The Cave', under a pen name (Justin Case). It's completely different from Ma.Ste.'s buks, as it's got a real plot (unlike him, I am a storyteller), but there are some elements of his style woven in, as in the fragment quoted above. I hoped to use some other hints from his 'Hypersincere Grotesque Flamboyance' thread but... I've been caved.'
Posted: 12/07/2011 10:22:14
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Case file reference: http://www.authonomy.com/forums/threads/80368/grotesque-flamboyance/
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