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Article: The arrival of Magnus Pym
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 13, 1986
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In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon
coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by its inhabitants,
Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxicab and, having paid
the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church
square. His destination was a terrace of ill-lit Victorian
boarding-houses with names like Bel-a-Vista, The Commodore and
Eureka.
In build he was powerful but stately, a representative of
something. His stride was agile, his body forward-sloping in the
best tradition of the Anglo-Saxon administrative class. In the same
attitude, whether static or in motion, Englishmen have hoisted flags
over distant colonies, discovered ...