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  • ...s in time to be the century's child. Raised motherless. The father, Sidney Stencil, had served the Foreign Office of his country taciturn and competent. No fa :"'How quiet,' said Stencil.
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  • ...y is "profane" compared to the almost mystical world of historical fiction Stencil (see below) moves through.
    35 KB (5,620 words) - 00:37, 4 April 2024
  • 52/48 '''Stencil''' <br> A stencil produces an image by allowing the passage of pigment through openings in it
    10 KB (1,660 words) - 12:04, 8 November 2019
  • Stencil is quoting the original "writing on the wall." In the book of Daniel, a my
    2 KB (324 words) - 07:16, 18 March 2021
  • ...he conversation, is Eigenvalue using this as a psychodontic description of Stencil's character?
    7 KB (1,089 words) - 05:00, 26 February 2021
  • ...as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveller named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V.". ...e last chapters (the intersecting lines forming a V-shape, as it were), as Stencil hires Benny to travel with him to Malta.
    11 KB (1,780 words) - 07:31, 12 September 2014
  • A
    312; Maltese priest who is the Bad Priest's counterpart; 341; with H. Stencil, 448; 482; [[Henry Adams#avalanche|possible Etymology]]
    10 KB (1,428 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2021
  • B
    55; Egyptologist and father of H. Stencil's acquaintance; acts as Wrens' guide in Alexandria and environs; murdered P
    10 KB (1,454 words) - 01:18, 19 March 2024
  • C
    458; S. Stencil's superior at Whitehall 444; homosexual, epileptic poet friend of Stencil's
    14 KB (1,986 words) - 09:05, 18 March 2021
  • D
    prefigures the obsessive Stencil and violent V, argues Theodore D. Kharpertian in ''A Hand to Turn the Tide: ...prematurely grey man with S. Stencil in F.O. in Florence in 1899; with S. Stencil in Malta, 1919, 469
    18 KB (2,529 words) - 02:43, 16 October 2007
  • E
    ...ic stillness [...] of the rock. Inertia." 445; "Both the world and we, M. Stencil, began to die from the moment of birth." [or, as Mr. Dylan sez: "He not bus "it isn't espionage," 53; "quaint and romantic views about," 183; 198; S. Stencil in Malta, 465; spys, 475; 479; 481; ''See also'' [[D#della|Della Torre]]; [
    6 KB (878 words) - 15:53, 14 September 2011
  • F
    ...0; predecessor of Father Avalanche in Malta, 449; 450; 470; working for S. Stencil/F.O. during June Disturbances, 479; "we do not control the world in secret" 444; Italian: "phoenix"; long-defrocked monk friend of H. Stencil's who breeds giant scorpions in marble cages; [[Chapter 16#fenice|Etymology
    13 KB (1,935 words) - 06:50, 15 May 2007
  • G
    296; subject of Catatonic Expressionist's harangue to Stencil at the Rusty Spoon
    11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:50, 15 May 2007
  • M
    ...in Malta for the F.O.; husband of Carla and father of Jr.; 318; 467; w/S. Stencil acting as his spy/double agent, 478 ...hellfish [...] the island of Malta [...] it frightened [H. Stencil]." 62; "Stencil has stayed off Malta." 303; Confessions of Fausto Maijstral, 304-46; God's
    28 KB (3,998 words) - 12:15, 3 November 2008
  • :'''Herbert Stencil''': "Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, none conceivable unless, ...ome forehead's pore and into the cul-de-sac of a sweat gland. [...] [T]iny Stencil wandered all night long among the silent, immense lightning bursts of nerve
    6 KB (968 words) - 20:18, 8 May 2007
  • H
    ...known" 388; "basic rhythms of History," 405; "Freudian period," 406; 438; "Stencil has never encountered history at all, but something far more appalling," 45 131; on York Avenue in New York, where Stencil ends up after getting shot in the sewer
    12 KB (1,853 words) - 11:34, 2 April 2015
  • I
    ...aglio instead of bas-relief. How tiresome to have the same feet" 488; S. Stencil "like some obsolete nautical fixture" 492; ''See also'' [[D#death|death]];
    8 KB (1,133 words) - 06:51, 15 May 2007
  • J
    ...caf&eacute; in Valletta where Maijstral is headed while being tailed by S. Stencil
    4 KB (541 words) - 16:08, 14 September 2011
  • :"[Stencil's] father died in Valletta." (p.303) ...Valletta &#151; somehow &#151; get to you? Make you feel anything? [...] [Stencil] was scared to death of Valletta." (p.381)
    9 KB (1,519 words) - 22:16, 9 May 2007
  • L
    53; friend of Stencil's who lives in a villa on the west coast of Majorca (island in the Mediterr
    8 KB (1,119 words) - 09:25, 18 March 2021
  • N
    ...rc&eacute;pic, nostalgic, snuffled over his guitar." 403; Mehemet's, 459; "Stencil did indeed feel a tug" 465; "the feathery tentacles of a nostalgia" 475; "t
    4 KB (589 words) - 06:57, 15 May 2007

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