| [I] It's a question of Modesty [message #22045] |
Mo, 25 April 2005 12:42 |
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Last night I had a dream about Modesty Blaise.
.... no, not *that* kind of dream! Get your minds up to gutter level!
Probably induced by having read Modesty and then struggling with a
map,[1] I dreamed up a story where a member of the Network had
usurped many of her contacts to set up cells in an international
crime organisation -- i.e. essentially taking over the old Network --
by claiming that Modesty was terminally ill from cancer and that
Willie was also out of the game (no details remembered).
My problem is that I know next to nothing about Modesty Blaise. I've
read a sum total of four, perhaps five stories about her, all Cases
from the Modesty Blaise Files (numbers 48, 49, 50, and one or
possibly two unknowns). So I ask those more versed in the canon, has
anything remotely similar to this happened? I think the contacts in
South America and the Baltic States were prominently mentioned in the
dream, if that helps.
I thank you in advance for any answers, including but not limited to
those about kittens and chocolate.
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[1] Tectonic technicians have a fun, but taxing, job.
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Marco Villalta -- Reply-To: <marco.usenet [at] spray.se>
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| Re: [I] It's a question of Modesty [message #24143 ] |
Mo, 25 April 2005 15:31 |
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Marco Villalta wrote:
> Last night I had a dream about Modesty Blaise.
>
> ... no, not *that* kind of dream! Get your minds up to gutter level!
>
> Probably induced by having read Modesty and then struggling with a
> map,[1] I dreamed up a story where a member of the Network had
> usurped many of her contacts to set up cells in an international
> crime organisation -- i.e. essentially taking over the old Network --
> by claiming that Modesty was terminally ill from cancer and that
> Willie was also out of the game (no details remembered).
>
> My problem is that I know next to nothing about Modesty Blaise. I've
> read a sum total of four, perhaps five stories about her, all Cases
> from the Modesty Blaise Files (numbers 48, 49, 50, and one or
> possibly two unknowns). So I ask those more versed in the canon, has
> anything remotely similar to this happened? I think the contacts in
> South America and the Baltic States were prominently mentioned in the
> dream, if that helps.
>
No, as far as I know, when she ran the Network, she was in control all
of the time. They had run-ins with other criminals, mainly over
Narcotics trade, and once there was a traitor inside Network.
So this seems to be an "original" dream.
Pudde.
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| Re: [I] It's a question of Modesty [message #24144 ] |
Mo, 25 April 2005 16:22 |
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| Re: [I] It's a question of Modesty [message #24179 ] |
Di, 26 April 2005 00:12 |
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In article <1114425766.328821.205160 [at] f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Marco Villalta says...
> [1] Tectonic technicians have a fun, but taxing, job.
Does this mean I have to get my giant world conquering robots from
another supplier?
--
rgl help feed my Ethshar jones (or just read the story}
< http://www.ethshar.com/thesprigganexperiment0.html>
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| Re: [I] It's a question of Modesty [message #26424 ] |
Fr, 29 April 2005 23:11 |
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Hi there,
On 25 Apr 2005 03:42:46 -0700, "Marco Villalta"
<marcos.bitbucket [at] spray.se> wrote:
>My problem is that I know next to nothing about Modesty Blaise.
Then try to get hold of the books Peter O'Donnell wrote or the Titan
Books reprints of the series, they're well worth it! :-)
>So I ask those more versed in the canon, has anything remotely similar
>to this happened?
Not that I can recall.
Cheers,
Graham.
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