An Unpleasant Encounter With The Law

Another episode from Denis Kodaly’s The 1001 Nights of Iarcus Oralto, in which Iarcus is mistaken for a well-known criminal, Silvery Moon, and locked up in the constabulary. Now read on…

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The 1001 Nights of Iarcus Oralto

In our last episode Iarcus’ companion Miss Fundament disappeared into the sea when she stamped her feet too hard and broke a hole in the frail dinghy in which they had been cast away. Now read on….

The 1001 Nights of Iarcus Oralto

We have previously posted extracts from the  Gertrude Stein manuscript discovered by Denis Kodaly. Here is an extract from the beginning of Denis’ own magnum opus, The 1001 Nights of Iarcus Oralto, which  follows the travels of a a pompous Englishman in the strange land of Arrapamatta. Iarcus’ tale starts with a shipwreck from which  he barely escapes. Now read on…  

Loving repeating: Gertrude Stein again again again

Gert went yesterday to the sweet, funny, raunchy musical Loving Repeating by  Frank Galati, based on the life and writings of Gertrude Stein.

Sunday slice: Gertrude Stein again again

Here is another extract from the unpublished manuscript of Gertrude Stein unearthed by our colleague Denis Kodaly.  Previous posts were on May 14 and June 11.

Sunday Serial – An Extraordinary Imbroglio (1) *

 

Standards probe at Dog Road Institute

Reports are coming in of an extraordinary imbroglio in Arrapamatta involving the well-known academic, Arnold Egbert Stringer,

Gertrude Stein – a previously undiscovered manuscript

     

 

Gert has a brother known, and not known, as Denis Kodaly, an inveterate snapper-up of literary trifles.  By a bizarre series of coincidences beginning in a Parisian fish shop and ending in a part-time taxidermist’s rooms in Kansas City, he has come upon a manuscript referred to in Oscar Trerty’s magisterial  “Marble Brain – a life of Gertrude Stein” but not previously found in spite of the efforts of Stein scholars. We reproduce here a short  extract.