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• 22:51 Am I the only person who thinks that Nancy Blackett would have made an excellent SOE agent? That fic ought to exist. #
• 19:21 Finiding Howard jacobson on Jesus interesting to argue with - sometimes an illuminating perspective, but he seems to think Christians are #
• 19:22 an awful lot more ignorant than we are, and also to make problems where they don't exist. #
• 19:38 @ParrotKnight It was particularly the stuff about the baptism of John the Baptist - it's quite clear from the Gospels (and Acts) that.... #
• 19:40 ... it's not Christian baptism - but that doesn't make it a bad thing. And he accepts ahistorical ideas like all the 'Pauline' epistles... #
• 19:42 ... being by the same man, when they aren't, but assumes that Christ's claim to be the Son of God has been added later (or ignores it). #
• 19:43 Though mostly the programme is making me sad. #

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person who thinks that Nancy Blackett would have made an excellent SOE agent?

Not now.

[caulkhead.livejournal.com]

That fic ought to exist, but until it does, I've just come across one on Yuletide where she and Susan sail one of the Little Ships.

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh yes, I've read that too. It's great.

... wish I knew more about SOE.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec. I shall take a look.

[tree_and_leaf]

It's the bit in Swallowdale where she sends the Swallows a coded message by bow and arrow from the Beckfoot launch, virtually under the Great Aunt's eye, then goes back to making polite conversation with the GA as if nothing had happened which convinced me of this. The German army wouldn;t have had a chance!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten that scene.

Whenever I read a bit of lit crit (or journalism) about Nancy just being a caricature I think "what books were you reading?".

[tree_and_leaf]

Nancy is marvellous. And a little bit scary.

[(Anonymous)]

With the possible exception of Hebrews, all the Pauline epistles are by the same man. The argument to the contrary was invented by some nineteenth-century protestants who wanted to get rid of those which showed episcopacy being installed in Crete and elsewhere. It is sad that such groundless scepticism should still be uncritically accepted two centuries later.