Talk:Black Mischief
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[edit] Confusing Sentence
"After a civil war with his father, Seth, grandson of Amurath, the Nestorian brigand who united the local tribes into a nation, is the victor." Excuse my ignorance, but which one is the "Nestorian brigand" here? Amurath, right? I'd make it clearer, but I'm not sure. And also, is "brigand" really the best word? Picaroon9288 22:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Abyssinian Reference
"it is a thinly veiled reference to the then empire of Abyssinia, now Ethiopia" Is this actually the case? I have a copy of Black Mischief here with a 1962 preface by the author in which he says that "the scene of the novel was a fanciful confusion of many territories ... it was natural for people to suppose that it derived from Abyssinia, at that time the sole independent native monarchy ... there was never the smallest resemblance between Seth and the Emperor Haile Selassie." Fipe 05:16, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
