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More thoughts on Father Mallory
May. 1st, 2019 12:45 pmFor those of you who have missed this saga on Facebook, I was trying to find a song I'd not heard for 30 years and a dear pal found it for me.
As I've relistened to this (and it's every bit as lovely as I remember it) I've realised how its worked in my subconscious and manifested itself in my writing. William Church in Wild Bells owes much of his knowingness (eg. of the effect he has on the females of the parish) to young Father Mallory, whose exhortation to the young girls that he'll see them at confession clearly shows that he knows what they've been thinking. I wonder if Mallory also shares other traits with William Church, ie a liking for his own sex which would make both of them oblivious to the charms of the young women who pine for them. I wouldn't be at all surprised.
As I've relistened to this (and it's every bit as lovely as I remember it) I've realised how its worked in my subconscious and manifested itself in my writing. William Church in Wild Bells owes much of his knowingness (eg. of the effect he has on the females of the parish) to young Father Mallory, whose exhortation to the young girls that he'll see them at confession clearly shows that he knows what they've been thinking. I wonder if Mallory also shares other traits with William Church, ie a liking for his own sex which would make both of them oblivious to the charms of the young women who pine for them. I wouldn't be at all surprised.
