Martin Faulks
Autor(a) de A Mosaic Palace Freemasonry and the Art of Memory
About the Author
Philippa Faulks has worked extensively within the health food trade, particularly with herbology and aromatherapy. Now a full-time writer, she lives and works in Suffolk, England. Martin Faulks has practiced the oriental arts since childhood. He trained in Zen Buddhism in Japan, has a black belt in mostrar mais Kuk Sool Won, and is proficient in Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Yi Jin Jing. His previous books include Secrets of Rejuvenation: Zen Warrior Exercises and Becoming a Ninja Warrior: A Quest to Recover the Secret Legacy of Japan's Most Secret Warriors. mostrar menos
Obras de Martin Faulks
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 19
- Membros
- 79
- Popularidade
- #226,897
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 25
- Idiomas
- 4
In addition to their ordinary technical problems as fiction, these stories clutter up the Masonic theme with superfluous esoteric bric-a-brac from all over the world. In a different sort of story, these might not be out of place, but they really undermine the clarity of the intended focus.
Finally, as a bonus, the author wants to offer us an elderly protagonist -- appropriate enough, given the median age of the Masonic demographic -- and makes a point of the creakiness and even fragility of Bro. Talbort, only to reveal him later as a mere pup of 47 years. This is almost as jarring as revealing, in passing, that the actual Masonic obedience of his mother lodge is not the United Grand Lodge of England but the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons. The author, I hasten to add, does not do the latter, but the history of the Chevalier d'Eon would provide excellent and amusing precedent for doing so.
Say not the struggle naught availeth -- try again!… (mais)