Trimblerigg : $b A book of revelationHousman, Laurence
Religion
Trimblerigg : $b A book of revelation
Housman, Laurence
Clergy -- Fiction; Romans à clef; Satire
¶ CHAPTER 25. Puto-Congo: friendly comparison
of Mr. Trimblerigg to a crocodile:
why, in the Puto-Congo, a crocodile policy
had become indispensable 232
¶ CHAPTER 26. The peaceful penetration of
Davidina: her wonderful ways: their effect
on savages. She returns to civilization, and
encounters Mr. Trimblerigg 241
¶ CHAPTER 27. Mr. Trimblerigg’s prayer
misses fire: he finds Davidina a comfortable
person to talk to: they go their separate ways 250
¶ CHAPTER 28. Mr. Trimblerigg’s genius for
inconsistency: its brilliant results: risks his
life, and becomes founder of the Puto-Congo
Free State Limited 257
¶ CHAPTER 29. Inspired by a new idea, he
combines Spiritualism with Second Adventism,
and opens campaign to make Heaven
safe for Democracy 263
¶ CHAPTER 30. Mr. Trimblerigg, opening a
box of prophecy, finds that his own coming
has been foretold: his ambition is satisfied 274
¶ CHAPTER 31. He reverts to True Belief as
the best means to Relative Truth when
prophecies are about. Light returns to him:
he uses it to slay an enemy 291
¶ CHAPTER 32. How he conquers America for
the new faith, competes with the Movies,
and starts building the New Jerusalem 295
¶ CHAPTER 33. The New Jerusalem encounters
unexpected opposition. The effect of
sticky gas on Second Adventism. Davidina
puts out Mr. Trimblerigg’s light, and in the
darkness that ensues his deity loses sight of
him 308
_Editorial_
The tribal deity to whom Mr. Trimblerigg owed his origin would, I
think, have shown a better sense of the eternal fitness of things had
he chosen for his amanuensis one whose theological antecedents were
more within his keeping and jurisdiction than my own. But when he
visited me with the attack of verbal inspiration which I was powerless
to throw off in any other form than that which here follows, he seems
rather to have assumed an intellectual agreement which certainly does
not exist, and to have ignored as unimportant a divergence of view
which I now wish to place on record. For, to put it plainly, I do not
worship the god of Mr. Trimblerigg; and had these pages been a complete
expression of my own feelings, they would have borne hostile witness
not so much against Mr. Trimblerigg, as against his deity.
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