#harry pendel

[walsiegirl]

Well this is cool, an old pal on LJ has requested the next GR sketch be from "Tailor of Panama". So Harry Pendel is next up in the big "Countdown to 70" sketchathon. (I may or may not try to draw the gay club dance scene, it might be just too ambitious for me...)

If anyone else has any requests for sketches of roles they would like to see sooner rather than later, hmu! My inbox is open!

[flamingtoads]

A, R, S and W ;)

A: Your current OTP.I’ve answered this but I never tire of letting peeps know it’s HACKLE!!! :D

R: A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships.Scary Godmother and Holda! And if you’re curious and wanna know more here you go! In one of the Scary Godmother comics you find out SG was pretty much raised by Mistress Dusk and Madame Albright at Grimoire’s Academy for Magical Young Girls and because Scary Godmother had both fairy and witch qualities she was kind of an outcast and Holda was one of few that accepted her! I ship it big time and I’m not sure if anyone has even read the comics but here’s Holda! (As a kid and an adult) 

S: What’s a headcanon you have?A hackle headacanon that I don’t think I’ve ever shared is that when they have a disagreement or something along those lines, they’re familiars will pick sides. For example if Hecate said something she didn’t mean because sometimes her emotions get the best of her, her familiar will straight up leave her and go to Ada until Hecate decides to talk things out. Another example, Ada wants to give Hecate space but Pendell is very persistent (borderline annoying lol) and causes trouble until she goes and talks to Hecate. (My headcanons are silly okay!)

W: 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms.Lin from Legend of KorraAda Cackle from The Worst WitchMinerva McGonagall from Harry PotterObi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars (more specifically Clone Wars)Coran Hieronymus Wimbleton Smythe from Voltron: Legendary Defender

[kaz3313]

Update in Tagging:

Does anyone need-

Superheros or Harry Potter tagged?

Harry Potter tags being- "hp" and "harry potter"

Superhero tag being: "superhero" "superheroes" "superheros"

I will stop tagging these when reblogging posts discussing these topics. Unless someone asks for these tags to be used again!

Tags in use that have not/will not change:

"allison pendel X susie campbell"

"rnm"

"rick and morty"

PS: this doesn't include tags like body horror/ other common trigger warnings

PPS: This is a list for Trigger Warnings if I've missed yours please send a message to me! Both inbox and PM's are open!

[kaycyspanamanianlitblog]

Ten Interesting Fiction Titles

1.The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré-He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama’s most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his “handlers” don’t realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he’ll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start to spin out of control, Harry is suddenly in over his head—thrown into a lethal maze of politics and espionage, with unthinkable consequences.(Amazon.com)

2.The World by Half by Cristina Henriquez-This novel by prizewinning author Cristina Henriquez follows the story of a woman, Miraflores, who finds her mother’s letters that were written by her father, whom she had never met. The letters offer a conflicting account from what her mother, who now has Alzheimer’s, told her. So, Miraflores travels to Panama to meet her father and find out the missing pieces. The World in Half paints a vivid image of Panamanian culture and along the way, Miraflores does a lot of self-exploration and self-discovery.(apieceoftravel.com)

3.Beneath a Panamanian Moon by David Terrenoire-Beneath a Panamanian moon is a thriller about a retired spy from D.C. who ends up taking an assignment in Panama. He plays piano at a resort as a coverup. Meanwhile, he’s in charge of keeping an eye on the American mercenaries and Colombians at the hotel. This is a fast-paced novel that will leave you laughing and glued to the book until the very last page.(apieceoftravel.com)

4.God’s Favorite by Lawrence Wright-Award-winning author Wright has put together this stunning historical fiction about Panama’s former dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega. The novel follows the time period of the late 1980s in an equally comical and dark take on Noriega’s attempts to flee and trying to redeem himself for bad behavior before he’s caught- whether that be via God, voodoo, or anything else he can find.(apieceoftravel.com)

5.Messages to Jake by Laura Ann Neuleo-Messages to Jake is a romance novel that follows a Peace Corps volunteer living in a Panamanian jungle village. Inspired, in part, by Neuleo’s Peace Corps experience in Panama, Messages to Jake is the first book in the Messages series. Packed with humor, characters that’ll feel like friends, and, of course, love, the Messages series explores what happens when a rural community is confronted with HIV, drug trafficking, and the arrival of modern-day amenities.(apieceoftravel.com)

6.Panama by Shelby Hiatt-After moving from a small town in Ohio to Panama while her father takes part in building the Panama Canal, a fifteen-year-old girl yearning for new experiences meets Frederico, a Spanish aristocrat who is working as a canal digger, and they begin a romance.(seattle.bibliocommons.com)

7.Panama:A Novel by Eric Zencey-American historian Henry Adams, grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American student. Miriam is alive in ways Adams can scarcely remember being, but when he goes looking for her, she disappears. When another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adams becomes embroiled in the police's attempt to identify the body and in the Panama Canal scandal that threatens to engulf France.(books.google.com)

8.Panama Passage by Donald Barr Chidsey-Panama Passage is the sweeping story of a handful of men determined to build a canal that the world said was impossible. Searing tropical heat, filth, mud and Yellow Jack were the dread dangers to be fought with antiquated equipment. Sabotage, political corruption and espionage were a challenge to be met with bare-knuckle courage and fiery daring. This is also the story of Harry Kellems who faced the challenge of Panama and won ... of Phyllis who surrendered to the sensuous lure of the tropics ... and of Madeline Desmoulins who loved Harry frankly and without shame.(books.google.com)

9.The Golden Horse by Juan David Morgan-"The Golden Horse by Juan David Morgan is a sweeping saga, painting a vivid, personal portrayal of the events that transpired as a result of the rivalry between New York shipping magnates, William Aspinwall and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the enormous personal cost that was borne by the people involved in the construction of the Panama Railroad-- the first transcontinental train in the Americas-- built during the California Gold Rush. Thousands of people died during the construction, succumbing to tropical diseases and natural disasters. Despite the danger, the lust of gold fever and the challenge of conquering the wilderness drove the men through the perils of torturous journeys, cutthroat competition, ruthless outlaws, savage jungles, the ferocious extremes of the tropical frontier, and violent cultural clashes, but not without the thrill of romantic adventures, the wonder of human inventiveness, and rugged determination to succeed.(books.google.com)

10.Panama: A Historical Novel by William Young Boyd,Bill Boyd-On the eve of the Panama Canal's return to its motherland, this swashbuckling novel presents the full panoply of its dramatic history. As told through the eyes of George Roosevelt Phillips -- a fictional nephew of Teddy Roosevelt -- we feel the energy, of a brash young America full of Manifest Destiny, blasting a new path between the oceans we felt it was our right to rule. Readers are swept along with the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, then through the wild plains of Nicaragua and jungles of Panama as Phillips scouts out possible routes for the new canal and then monitors its progress -- both political and physical.We visit the drawing rooms and halls of Congress as the now infamous Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed and the new nation of Panama is spawned by a US-inspired revolution in Colombia. We see the struggle to build the canal, and hold it, and meet a fascinating cast of heroes and adventurers, brilliant engineers and scientists, conniving diplomats, determined patriots and soldiers, and witness the hardships and setbacks of those who did the digging.Panamanian Bill Boyd's novel offers an insider's intriguing insight into a rich chapter in the history of the Americas.(Amazon.com)

[oldrcsplendere-blog]

event starter call

please comment with which character you want: (all characters are under the cut)

allison pendel from bendy & the ink machine (0/3)

annabeth chase from percy jackson (0/3)

belle from disney (0/3) 

cj hook from descendants (1/3) 

clary fairchild from shadowhunters (1/3) 

cleo sertori from h2o (0/3) 

elizabeth afton from fnaf (0/3) 

eliza hamilton from hamilton (0/3)

ella blake from lorien legacies (0/3)

elle woods from legally blonde (0/3)

ginny weasley from harry potter (0/3)

hazel levesque from percy jackson (1/3)

hope jones from once upon a time (0/3)

hope mikaelson from the originals (1/3)

james potter from harry potter (1/3)

jane from twilight (0/3)

jack jack parr from disney (2/3)

jennifer pierce from black lightning (0/3)

josie saltzman from the vampire diaries (0/3)

kimi finster from rugrats (0/3)

korra from the legend of korra (0/3)

laia from an ember in the ashes (0/3)

leia organa from star wars (1/3)

mal from descendants (1/3)

mary macdonald from harry potter (1/3)

newt scamander from harry potter (1/3)

peeta mellark from the hunger games (1/3)

renesmee cullen from twilight (1/3)

rey from star wars (0/3)

sabrina spellman from the chilling adventures of sabrina (0/3)

sam from totally spies (0/3)

sirena from mako mermaids (0/3)

stella from winx club (2/3)

tiana from disney (0/3)

violet baudelaire from a series of unfortunate events (0/3)

zoe casbla from star wars (0/3)

[kevrocksicehouse]

Geoffrey Rush one of Australia’s finest (actors) turns 69 today. Let’s just focus on the work.

Sir Francis Walsingham in Elizabeth. D: Shekhar Kapur (1998). As Elizabeth’s fixer, Rush mentored the young queen on the dark art of statecraft and how vulnerable are those who do not master it. He had never played a Le Carre role but had me wondering what his George Smiley would be like.

The Marquis de Sade in Quills. D: Philip Kaufmann (2000). A grand guignol about freedom of speech, which for the Marquis is both perversity and life itself. When forces of Napoleonic repression try to silence him at the state asylum he has been committed to, his ruthlessness in return sets up a conflict between liberty of expression and the suppression of dangerous ideas in which no side can be sentimental or self-righteous about itself. His performance suggests that the drive to express oneself is a perilous and essential madness.

Harry Pendel in The Tailor of Panama. D: John Boorman (2001). Rush gets a Le Carre movie.  An amoral spy bribes/blackmails Pendel, the tailor of many prominent Panamanians (including the president) for dirt on his customers. When Pendel runs dry on info, he makes things up, with hazardous consequences. This farcical thriller on the dangerous lies that can influence powerful people was not seen by enough powerful people.

[kkintle]

The Tailor of Panama by John le Carre ; Quotes

His mouth, even in repose, gave out a warm and unobstructed smile. To catch sight of it unexpectedly was to feel a little better.

Come on, silly, it’s not locked. But Pendel remained seated. He had taught himself to do that. Otherwise he’d be opening and closing doors all day.

"It’s where the eye fall, it’s the detail that speaks for the whole. A good buttonhole doesn’t make a good suit. But a bad buttonhole makes a bad suit."

"We closed the front of the shop. We didn’t always close the back."

How he had got up there, what had impelled him, were mysteries he was no more disposed to contemplate than a cat that finds itself at the top of the tree. What mattered was escape. 

(...) his expression, if anybody in that mayhem had troubled to study it, was of a man who had struck true gold and didn’t know whether to run for help or dig it alone. 

(...) because he loved her, felt it kindest to leave her with her faith (...)

“Everything in the world is true if you invent it hard enough and love the person it’s for!”

Decision taken. Tell you later. Much later. Like in another life entirely. A life without fluence.

“Harry boy, it’s a law. A man’s got to pay for his own dreams."

“There’s no logic unless the emotions are involved. You want to do something, so you do it. That’s logical. You want to do something and don’t do it, that’s a breakdown of reason.”

A man who can make a fool of himself in three languages strikes me as a three-times-bigger fool than a man who is confined to one.

This was not power. This was power’s prize.

(...) because a thing you learn about spying is, it’s like trade, it’s like sex, it has to get better or it won’t get anywhere.

And what’s life, if it isn’t invention? Starting with inventing yourself. Prisoners, it is well known, have their own morality. Such was Pendel’s.

“When we can’t hurt our enemies we hurt our friends. As long as you know that.”

(...) we shouldn’t compose relationships, but if we don’t, what else do we do?

That’s who he is and you may call it complicated or you may call it very simple. Harry has a dream for everyone. Harry dreams all our lives for us, and gets them wrong every time. 

And there were quite a few clicks and smiles before it occurred to Marta that Louisa was drunk in the way Marta’s brother used to get drunk when life become too much for him. Not singing drunk or wobbly drunk, but crystal-headed, perfect-vision drunk. Drunk with all the knowledge she had been drinking to get rid off.

The same are madder than we’ll ever know, he thought. And the mad are a lot more sane than some of us would like to think. 

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee... Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us... We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within... We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived. 

Oh Lou, oh Christ, I wish so much, so very much, that I could join them too. But I have to leave the lie behind, even if, hand on heart, I don’t know what the truth is. I have to stay and go at the same time, but at this moment, I can’t stay.

[5reisende]

Paris - ein Fest für alle Sinne

Seit jeher versammeln sich alle großen Künstler in Paris und Schreiberlinge aus aller Welt versuchen diese Stadt in ihren Geschichten einzufangen. Dann kann es schon mal passieren, dass man das Gefühl hat, sie schon zu kennen, bevor man hinfährt und dann ist man trotzdem überrascht. Denn Paris ist mit den geschichtsträchtigen Gemäuern von Bastille und Arc de Triomphe, dem Kitsch-und Klischee-überladenen Eiffelturm und Bateau-Mouches und natürlich mit seinen Bewohnern, die uns das französische Savoir-vivre vorleben, immer eine Reise wert. Deshalb - Wenn ihr ein paar Frühlingstage Zeit habt, folgt uns durch Paris und besucht unsere Lieblingsorte. Nach Paris fahren wir am besten mit dem Zug (Europa-Special der Bahn) oder dem Flix-Bus. Das hat den Vorteil, dass wir gleich im Centrum ankommen. Am ersten Bahnhof kaufen wir uns einen Paris-Visite-Pass, der die Pariser Verkehrsmittel, allen voran die Metro, erschließt und Ermäßigungen für die Sehenswürdigkeiten bietet. Eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Fahrkartenmöglichkeiten findet ihr hier. Quartiere gibt es in jeder Lage und für jedes Budget bei booking.com oder airbnb. Paris ist natürlich kein billiges Pflaster. Dafür kann man dann aber mit seinem Baguette unter dem Arm über die Île de la Cité oder den Montmartre flanieren, bei den Bouquinisten an der Seine verweilen, früh am Morgen in den Louvre gehen und alleine vor der Mona Lisa stehen, danach die Cafés und Boutiquen entlang der Champs Élysées besuchen, am Abend den illuminierten Eiffelturm bewundern, nachts den Musikern in der Metro applaudieren ... und am Ende voll französischer Lebensart und Leichtigkeit, schöner Ideen und vielleicht einer Kleinigkeit aus der Galerie la Fayette zufrieden inspiriert in den Alltag zurückkehren.

Wir treffen uns im Herzen von Paris auf der Île de la Cité - beherrscht durch die Notre Dame (wir besuchten sie vor dem furchtbaren Brand), füttern die zahmen Spatzen davor, stehen bei den Straßenmusikern auf den Brücken und essen die beste Eiscreme der Stadt bei Berthillon - selbstverständlich in seinem Eiscafé in der Rue Saint Louis en l'ìle. Für alle Freunde der magischen Literatur - hier befindet sich der Point Zero (von dem aus nebenbei die Stadt vermessen wurde) und auch die Rue Nicholas Flamel (Harry Potter/ Die Geheimnisse des Nicholas Flamel) ist nicht weit entfernt .

Ein Besuch des Cimetière de Père Lachaise bringt uns in die Vergangenheit - auf diesem beeindruckenden Friedhof befinden sich die Gräber vieler Berühmtheiten aus Geschichte und Kultur. Der Louvre steht natürlich ganz oben auf dem Plan - wir starten zeitig und genießen einen unverstellten Blick auf die Mona Lisa, bevor wir die Gänge durchwandeln und viele Gemälde und Skulpturen aus dem Kunstunterricht in natura bewundern können. Auch das Musée d'Orsay bietet in einem ehemaligen Bahnhofsgebäude eine beeindruckende Sammlung der Impressionisten und das Musée Rodin besuchen wir am besten bei schönem Wetter, weil viele Skulpturen im Garten stehen. Das Centre Pompidou ist ein tolles Museum für moderne Kunst, besonders beeindruckend ist die Street Art davor.

Aktuelle Künstler treffen wir bei der Arbeit oder an ihren Ständen rund um den Montmartre. Vor der Basilique du Sacre Coeur links ein paar Treppen hinunter gibt eine Graffiti Wall und in der Nähe befindet sich "le mur des je t'aime", an die auf vielen Sprachen -ich liebe dich- geschrieben steht.

Zum Abschluss unserer Runde besuchen wir Napoleons Grab im Invalidendom.

In die Unterwelt von Paris führen ein Besuch der Catacomben- oder auch in Les Égoutes - die Kanalisation.

Mit einem abendlichen Blick über Paris verabschieden wir uns für dieses Mal und wissen zugleich - wir kommen wieder und lassen uns erneut verzaubern!

Vieles haben wir bei diesem Besuch ausgelassen und nehmen es uns für die nächste Tour auf - das Quartier Latin, den Jardin du Luxembourg, das Foucaultsche Pendel im Panthéon und vieles mehr.

Au revoir et à bientôt Read the full article

[registrarism]

Our man in Panama

Our man in Panama very brief book review of a less than classic le Carre.

The Tailor of Panama by John le Carre

  Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama’s rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard – a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money – walks into his shop, Harry’s fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soon he finds himself out of his depth in an international game he…

[walsiegirl]

“Are you pulling my pisser?” - Osnard

“Not unless the president’s pulling mine.” - Pendel

Tailor of Panama, 2001 (dir. John Boorman)

Absolutely not my best work but I am not spending hours on this... as it would take hours to do this justice! Requested as part of my GR sketchathon, which I’m doing to count down to GRush’s 70th b-day this year, here’s my doodle of Harry Pendel from the “Tailor of Panama”, opposite Andy Osnard. I really wanted to draw the gay club dance scene so I had a crack at it - though it also meant sketching Pierce Brosnan. (Something I will never do again, I’m sure!)

Next up in the sketchathon - the Marquis de Sade!

Sketch 1: David Helfgott from “Shine” 1996

[lyssahumana]

First Lines: John Le Carré - The Tailor of Panama

It was a perfectly ordinary Friday afternoon in tropical Panama until Andrew Osnard barged into Harry Pendel's shop asking to be measured for a suit.

[flavioprospero]

A chegada da primavera, traz-nos luz, vida, cores, cheiros e sabores. A mudança de estação é também a altura de mudar o guarda roupa. Durante os próximos dias iremos apresentar a nossa primeira coleção Primavera/Verão, cada dia revelamos um dos 10 tecidos desta estação, numa viagem a volta do Mundo. "O ALFAIATE do Panamá"* Cores frescas e estampados floridos, levam-nos até aos trópicos onde o Rum é vestido a rigor!!! Harry Pendel, conhecido como "O Alfaiate do Panamá", foi um ex-condenado que se reinventou como o mais famoso Alfaiate do Panamá, um exímio contador de histórias. ____________________________________ 🌴Rum Abuelo|frutas tropicais🍍 ||||Doce__Frutado__Especiarias|||| ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••○••••••••••• 📸 Pedro Leite . #oalfaiate #cocktailspormedida #Santotirso #cocktailmenu #primaveraverao #rumabuelo (at O Alfaiate) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvW7yKQFAk8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zt9dqm2rbq33

[nomanwalksalone]

SEVEN AT ONE BLOW: FAMOUS FABULIST TAILORS OF FACT AND FICTION

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

1. The Brave Little Tailor: 

Ever since the Brothers Grimm’s Brave Little Tailor turned swatting seven flies away from his snack of jam into a tall tale of dispatching seven strong men, the profession of tailor has turned up its share of memorable misadventurers. This folktale tailor demonstrated cockiness, confidence, and quick-wittedness, along with a very grudging respect for the truth. News of his rumored exploits spreads the land through word of garrulous mouth, threatening to upset social distinctions (a hero tailor? A threat to the King, who sends him out to assassinate giants – making him the first tailor secret agent on record.) True to form, the tailor uses presence of mind rather than body, misdirection, getting others to do things for him (even kill each other instead of forcing him to kill them). Ultimately, and after several other successful impossible missions, the tailor ends up married to a princess and King himself. 

The Brave Little Tailor has become a surprising archetype: the man of unexpected and sometimes untrustworthy qualities, able to leap class boundaries as if he possessed the seven-league boots from another folktale, whose talents for verbal, rather than sartorial, embellishment are just as likely to get him into as extricate him from trouble.

2 & 3. The #Steez is Out There: George Spicer and Mario Zuccala

Despite the recent vogue for anything custom and supposedly crafted, tailors are still fighting feverishly to stand out and survive. Those that can emphasize their famous former customers or the styles they supposedly pioneered, or types of clothing they might have invented. Others will seize on any gimmick: for instance, the same entrepreneurial tailor has purchased the names of Anthony Sinclair (the Savile Row tailor who made Sean Connery’s suits in his first Bond movies) and Mr. Fish (the brand famous for psychedelic 1960s shirts and wide ties) in order to sell ready-to-wear clothing under those and other half-remembered labels. Nothing wrong with that, but I do wish someone would step into the spaces vacated by my two favorite parasteezologists, these tailors who had sittings with the supernatural.

In 1933, George Spicer of the Savile Row tailor Todhouse Reynard was driving around the Scottish lochs when he and his wife observed “an extraordinary-looking creature” rather like a gigantic snail “jerk” across the road ahead. A contemporary drawing based on their description  one of the earliest modern sightings of the Loch Ness Monster is tailor-made for revival as the logo of a resuscitated brand:

And why not? Todhouse Reynard was long ago taken over by what is now the tailors Norton & Sons, whose owner Patrick Grant reintroduced another of the names Norton owns, E. Tautz, as an expensive and trendy ready-to-wear brand with Tautz’s old fox logo. Nessie would have been so much more cool. 

A favorite of my bud @voxsartoria, Mario Zuccala was a Florentine tailor who took shortcuts, like many more recent tailors. However, in 1962 he took one of the third kind: cutting through the woods one evening, he encountered an object “like an inverted bowl” out of which a cylinder extended and two creatures emerged to carry him away. Upon his return, he described them to an investigator who created the shocking image below:

(Note the natural shoulders and the clean chest. No drape there. I feel like I understand the Florentine cut much better now. The headgear, though, is a bit 1960s Courrèges.) Zuccala reported the creatures had given him a message for humanity, although he forgot what it was. Probably something about when our alterations would be done. 

4 & 5. Douglas Hayward and The Tailor of Panama

The late Douglas Hayward was by all accounts a fantastic tailor and a charming man whose shop became something of a club for regular customers, many of whom hailed from the same rulebreaking, class-distorting 1960s crucible as Hayward had. Originally based near the offices of the BBC, Hayward moved to the West End as he prospered, deliberately choosing not to establish in Savile Row in order to avoid its establishment connotations. Instead, he set up in nearby Mount Street, which was still a quiet Mayfair neighborhood at the time. (Today, it houses outposts of Rubinacci as well as the luxury brand William & Son, although it’s still far prettier than Bond Street round the corner.) Hayward was a favorite of Michael Caine, who included him in The Italian Job in a scene as Charlie Croker’s tailor. Terence Stamp, Alec Guinness, Lord Lichfield, Alec Guinness and a host of other glitterati of a certain age could drop in at his shop as a sort of second home; it was a somewhat less showbizzy name, spy novelist John Le Carré, who used him as an inspiration in creating Harry Pendel, The Tailor of Panama. 

Hayward might have been a talkative and roguishly charming fellow who mixed classes to end up one of the first celebrity tailors. But he was a damned good tailor who stayed on the right side of the law and didn’t let his gift of gab get him in trouble with customers or the law. Le Carré’s Harry Pendel, on the other hand, was an East End chancer who constantly fabricated stories as well as garments – beginning with the completely invented history and heritage of his ersatz tailoring shop Pendel & Braithwaite of London and… Panama. These relatively harmless lies get him trapped in the gentle blackmail of disgraced MI6 agent Andy Osnard, for whom he then creates made-up political fabulisms that ensnare the world powers in a geopolitical wild goose chase. Pendel’s our latter-day Man in Havana, with bespoke suits more romantic than the vacuum cleaners of Graham Greene’s salesman. True to inspiration, however, Pendel is a lovable rogue, just a less law-abiding, slightly less lucky one than Hayward.

6. The Kingsman crew

So one-dimensional that pressed together they collectively account for one character, the tailors of Matthew Vaughn’s film are interesting in that they turn the Brave Little Tailor archetype on its head: mainly a group of upper-class snobs, they pretend to be tailors while acting as an elite espionage service. Their ur-British garments and accessories become their weapons and defenses, including a Brigg umbrella with bulletproof canopy and, more charmingly, a classic Conway Stewart that really is a poison pen. In one of those coincidences of life imitating what is entertainment, though definitely not art, today you will see the occasional upper-class surname like Sebag-Montefiore among the cutters of Savile Row, although to my knowledge “bulletproof tweeds” is still just an expression. Some of the canvases and interlining Kingsman’s tailoring inspiration Huntsman use, though, might turn back a .22. And like the Brave Little Tailor, Kingsman’s apprentice ends up in a princess’ bed, although it’s for the purposes of a crass sodomy joke set to Slave to Love. I bet Bryan Ferry approved.

7. Garak

“Plain, simple Garak, a tailor on the Promenade” of station Deep Space Nine is how he introduces himself. Like a good custom suit, much more meaning lies beneath the surface. Is he a reformed spy? A sleeper agent? The only thing everyone’s favorite Cardassian (after Kourtney) will admit to is that he’s a very good tailor. Did he really learn the safe passage codes to Cardassia Prime while “hemming trousers”? His scorn for the romanticized conventions of 20th century Earth spy fiction is evident: beholding the posh apartments, free-flowing liquor and buxom assistants of Holosuite-minted secret agent Julian Bashir, he dryly notes, “I think I joined the wrong intelligence service.” One that taught him to have no ego, nothing but professionalism… so when did he learn how to tailor? Not unlike some of the early Internet-famous tailors, he’s not above blowing it all up when things look dire – but Garak does so literally, in order to flush out an assassin. In short, he’s an interstellar man of mystery, humble, ebullient, and able to layer subterfuge upon subterfuge. My first custom tailor, Terran in origin, did the same. Garak’s many aphorisms usually refer to his cavalier relationship with the truth: “Never tell the truth when a lie will do.” Even after a near-death experience that elicited three separate, conflicting, near-deathbed confessions, he avows that everything he said was true. “Especially the lies.” Probably best not to second-guess whether Garak’s Clothiers really hand-pad-stitches its suit canvases and doesn’t rely on block patterns. The Brave Little Tailor traveled far, but did proud.

[v1mch3n]

Ich entlocke der Tablettenbox ein paar Betablocker Und verhexe Harry Potter mit einer Teppichklopfer- Elektroschocker-Mixtur in nur einem Probeanlauf Und er zerfällt zu Rosenquarzstaub Ich pendel' zwischen schwindelerregenden Höhenflügen und tief verzweifelten, zwei verschiedenen Lösungswegen Such' im Rausch ominöser Riten den Mittelpunkt Den Rest erledigt die Beschwichtigung

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More Books

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I stumbled across this list of books recommended for people wanting to learn about Traditional Witchcraft on sarahannelawless.com. I enjoy how she did this, as right before she gives this exhaustive, awesome list, she basically says to put the books away and live your path. That being said, here’s the list as she compiled it:

Let’s Begin with the Classics:

Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches of Italy by Charles G. Leland, 1899

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, 1911

The Golden Bough by James George Frazer, 1922

The History of the Devil: The Horned God of the West by R. Lowe Thompson, 1929

The Greater Key of Solomon edited by Samuel L. Macgregor Mathers, 1914

The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay on the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going Under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by Robert Kirk, 1691

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves, 1966

The Modern Classics:

Now that you know their influences – read their works.

The Complete Art of Witchcraft: Penetrating the Secrets of White Magic by Sybil Leek, 1971

Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition by Cora Anderson

High Magic’s Aid by Gerald Gardner, 1949

Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks & Covens by Paul Huson, 1971

Natural Magic by Doreen Valiente

Rebirth of Witchcraft by Doreen Valiente

Witchcraft for Tomorrow by Doreen Valiente

The Writings of Roy Bowers (Robert Cochrane)

Read Your Mythology:

Kerenyi and Eliade will blow your mind, Puhvel will make you pull out the dictionary again, and Dr. Davidson will be a refreshing breath of easily understandable air.

Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel

Encyclopedia of Spirits by Judika Illes

Gods of the Greeks by Karl Kerényi, 1974

The Myth of Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade, 1954

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe by H.R. Ellis Davidson

Shamanism & Syncretism:

To understand just how far back our practices as magical practitioners and spirit workers go one must explore the connections between modern Witchcraft, early modern Witchcraft, pre-Christian Paganism, Shamanism, and pre-Shamanism.

Cunning-Folk & Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic by Emma Wilby, 2006

Singing With Blackbirds: The Survival of Primal Celtic Shamanism in Later Folk-Traditions by Stuart A. Harris Logan, 2006

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade, 1951

Shamans Sorcerers and Saints: A Prehistory of Religion by Brian Hayden, 2003

The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer by Brian Bates, 1984

Witchcraft and the Shamanic Journey (aka North Star Road) by Kenneth Johnson, 1999

Hands-on Magic:

A list of books to get your hands dirty, your kitchen messy, and give you lots of hands-on experience. Mickaharic is my homeboy – anything by him is excellent, but the two listed are his best. He draws from the many cultures living in North America. Valerie Worth’s books are similar to his, but more witchy and less hoodoo. Reading her books is like reading the grimoire of your grandmother… if she was a poet-witch.

A Century of Spells by Draja Mickaharic

Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews by Scott Cunningham

Crones Book of Words by Valerie Worth, 1971

Crones Book of Charms & Spells by Valerie Worth, 2002

Hoodoo, Herb and Root Magic by cat yronwode

Magical Herbalism by Scott Cunningham

Spiritual Cleansing: A Handbook of Psychic Protection by Draja Mickaharic

Herbalism Class:

The only non-magical books on herbalism you’ll ever need are The Herb Book and The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook. The magical herbalism books are a mixture of reference and learning how to work with the spirits of plants.

Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham

The Herb Book by John Lust

Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook: A Home Manual by James Green

Magical and Ritual Use of Aphrodisiacs by Richard Alan Miller, 1985

Magical and Ritual Use of Herbs by Richard Alan Miller, 1983

Pharmako Trilogy by Dale Pendell

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul by Ross Heaven & Howard G. Charing

Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants by Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch, and Wolf-Dieter Storl, 2003

Many of the classics are available for free on Sacred Texts and Google Books — always check them first as well as your local public library before purchasing books. Read for free! The out-of-print books I’ve listed aren’t very rare and shouldn’t be difficult to find on the second-hand market. If you’re lazy just search Amazon. If you’re more determined try AbeBooks or FetchBook.

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So there it is. Has anyone read any of these and would like to share what they thought? 

Blessings!