Ten Things: April

This year our Ten Things series – which surprisingly appears on the tenth of each month – continues concentrating on the amusing, both real and fictional. So this month we have …

Ten Ficticious Books from Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time

  1. Ada Leintwardine; The Bitch Pack Meets on Wednesday
  2. David Pennistone; Descartes, Gassendi and the Atomic Theory of Epicurus
  3. Evadne Clapham; The Pistons of our Locomotives Sing the Songs of Our Workers (retitled as Engine Melody)
  4. St John Clarke; Fields of Amaranth (see right)
  5. Vernon Gainsborough; Bronstein Marxist or Mystagogue?
  6. X Trapnel; Dogs Have No Uncles
  7. Russell Gwinnett; The Gothic Symbolism of Mortality in the Texture of Jacobean Stagecraft
  8. Quentin Shuckerly; Athletes Footmen
  9. Mark Members; Kleist, Marx, Sartre, The Existential Equilibrium
  10. Revd Salathiel Brightman; Attick and Roman Reckonings of Capacity for Things Liquid and Things Dry reduced to the Common English Mensuration for Wine and Corn