![]() 2005, US, Ace Books, ISBN 7-7, trade paperbackĪ Silverlock Companion: the life and works of John Myers Myers, edited by Fred Lerner, is a 52-page pamphlet published 1988 OCLC 22760287 and reprinted as a book 1989 OCLC 19352130.Creating Healthier Relationships and Greater Well Being!.2004, US, NESFA Press, ISBN 1-88 hardback, with "Silverlock Companion".1996, US, Ace Books, ISBN 4-9, paperback.1979, US, Ace Books, ISBN 1-4, second printing.1966, US, Ace Books, mass market paperback.His main character learns about himself by participating in the lives of other literary figures. John Myers Myers takes a novel approach to this genre in Silverlock. These voyages speak to human beings' desire to answer fundamental questions about their place in the world. The journey takes many forms: Gilgamesh searching for immortality Dante's trips to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory and Wyatt and Billy's road trip in Easy Rider, among many others. Journeys of self-discovery appear in every genre, teaching us about the main character as well as ourselves. An amusing exercise in literary game playing. Gulliverian fantasy in which a castaway is washed up on the shore of the Commonwealth, where all the great characters of literature are to be found the hapless hero wanders around, repeatedly getting himself into difficulties and finding famous rescuers, eventually cultivating a kind of heroism. The novel is light and pleasant, rather in the manner of Christopher Morley. John Myers Myers is remembered for SILVERLOCK, a recursive fantasy that centres on a picaresque voyage by a shipwrecked protagonist through the 'Commonwealth' (of literature), where he encounters numerous characters and situations from world literature and mythology – the Ass of Apuleius, Beowulf, the Green Knight, Robin Hood, Dante's Hell, Friar John from RABELAIS, and many more. Aeacus, Minos, and Radamanthus were the judges of the dead in Hades in Greek mythology.Hamlet, from Shakespeare's play of the same name.Ship of fools, a medieval European cultural phenomenon.The Green Knight from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, and The Dormouse from Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland.Izaak Walton, English novelist, as "Piscator". ![]() Emma Watson, from the novel fragment The Watsons, by Jane Austen.Becky Sharp (Becky Crawley) from Thackeray's Vanity Fair.Manon Lescaut, from the novel L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut and the opera Manon Lescaut.Puck, character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. ![]() Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho Panza. ![]()
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