Trimblerigg : $b A book of revelation

Name: Trimblerigg : $b A book of revelation
Author: Housman, Laurence

Housman, Laurence

Clergy -- Fiction; Romans à clef; Satire

¶ CHAPTER 12. Mr. Trimblerigg’s deity exercises
      his divine prerogative, and watches him
      take a bath: his honesty under trying circumstances:
      his success as an organizer                            124

  ¶ CHAPTER 13. His liking for adventure and
      experiment exposes him to danger: escaping
      without loss of character, he finds cause to
      complain of his wife’s                                 129

  ¶ CHAPTER 14. Invents his famous doctrine of
      ‘Relative Truth’: his success in the mission
      field. He begins to invest: looks for a
      popular cause, and finds one                           137

  ¶ CHAPTER 15. His popular cause being
      threatened by his investments, he makes a
      sacrifice, and wins: becomes a power in the
      financial world, and achieves fame                     144

  ¶ CHAPTER 16. By a very slight departure from
      the truth (relative), he gets the better of
      Davidina, whereby his conscience is greatly
      comforted                                              156

  ¶ CHAPTER 17. He tastes the sweets of popular
      success: forgives an enemy: sees his star in
      the ascendant, reads poetry, and sleeps the
      sleep of the just                                      161

  ¶ CHAPTER 18. A strange awakening: finds
      himself the recipient of an embarrassing
      honour: his difficulty in finding a place for
      it under present conditions                            168

  ¶ CHAPTER 19. The effect of heavenly signs
      on the young and innocent. His wife discovers
      for the first time that he is a holy
      man: her remorse                                       181

  ¶ CHAPTER 20. To escape from the beauty of
      holiness Mr. Trimblerigg contemplates a life
      of sin, but finds himself stuck fast in virtue.
      Effects of his wife’s confession: his fear of
      Davidina: he narrowly escapes death                    189

  ¶ CHAPTER 21. Refusing to make an exhibition
      of himself, he becomes unpopular: escapes
      the fury of the mob, meets Davidina, and is
      saved from further embarrassment. The
      story of an onlooker                                   200

  ¶ CHAPTER 22. Mr. Trimblerigg comes out
      top: Relative Truth in war-time the only
      solution: attends funeral of a celebrity, and
      makes arrangements for his own                         209

  ¶ CHAPTER 23. He becomes the voice of the
      nation: secures the ministry of women:
      makes peace-mottoes for the million: hears
      a voice from the Beyond forbidding him to
      hew Agag                                               215

  ¶ CHAPTER 24. Relative Truth in black and
      white becomes a problem. For the rescue of
      his own reputation adopts the policy of
      reprisals: the Free Churches are divided               225

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Trimblerigg : $b A book of revelation

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