by Don Jacobson
[lxxxvii] Modeled after the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grants…currently about (USA) $600,000.
[lxxxviii]Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, (original title, Wealth) North American Review Vol.148, Issue 391 pp. 653–665, June 1889.
[lxxxix] I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. The final line of the1970 motion picture Tora Tora Tora and attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, although the is no evidence that he spoke or wrote the words.
[xc] For the answer, please see the opening paragraphs of Chapter XXII in The Exile: Kitty Bennet and the Belle Époque.
[xci] Unattributed quote of this popular epigram.
[xcii] Ceres was the Roman Goddess of Agriculture (hence the word cereal) and the venti were the Roman gods of the wind.
[xciii] See “Supper at Netherfield Ball Recipes” at http://www.austenps.com/ accessed 9/19/16.
[xciv] The Body Politic (like The Great Chain of Being) were metaphors used by the upper classes to explain and justify their position above other members of the population. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_politic
[xcv] Mrs. Bennet had, for some reason, become fascinated with the RMS Titanic disaster.
[xcvi] Please recall that in the Bennet Wardrobe Universe, Miss Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was ascertained by Mr. Holmes (see The Exile, Ch. XXI-XXIII) to be a non-fiction account of the Bennet family.
[xcvii] Reynolds Woodcock is the British couturier character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film The Phantom Thread. Here, in 1948, he has yet to make his mark on the British fashion scene.
[xcviii] I imagined Eileen to possess a physique and fashion sense akin to the famous American actress, Katherine Hepburn.
[xcix] General Sir Richard Fitzwilliam (1781-1857) favored the Pattern 1796 Heavy Cavalry Sword. See Ch. XXIII of The Keeper: Mary Bennet’s Extraordinary Journey where Miss Bennet describes the sword thusly, “I have seen his working sword. It is not shiny and bright like that little toad-sticker you wear. His is a man’s weapon, heavy to cut through bone and gristle, hued like pewter and with a blade longer than your arm. It is nicked and scarred and so worn from constant sharpening that it is more rapier than saber. But its edge has sent more of Napoleon’s horde to Hell than you will ever fight as you parade around the Hertfordshire’s lanes.”
[c] Richard Fitzwilliam had, during the war, adopted the American fascination with diluting his drink with both ice cubes and seltzer. He had not, however, begun drinking his ale at anything but room temperature.
[ci] Attributed to a performance of Catherine the Great in 1944 where West quipped “Is that your sword or are you just happy to see me?” from Art Cohn, The Nine Lives of Michael Todd. (New York, Random House)1958. P 193. Accessed from https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/20/glad-to-see/#note-7045-1 on 10/11/18.
[cii] We’ll Meet Again Lyrics and music by Hughie Charles and Ross Parker, 1939.
[ciii] Readers may see the later chapters and epilogues of The Maid and The Footman as well as the Epilogues of The Exile: Kitty Bennet and the Belle Époque for more on both scenarios mentioned by the Earl of Matlock (12th).
[civ] Klement was Adolf Eichmann’s alias.
[cv] 14 Garibaldi Street in San Fernando was Eichmann’s hideout.
[cvi] Hill was a noted London gangster from the 1930s-1970s. He mentored the Kray twins.
[cvii] Barraclough was one of George Smiley’s aliases. See John LeCarre’s Smiley novels.
[cviii] British slang for life Sentence. See https://www.dissidentreality.com/articles/uk-prison-slang/
[cix] The Timson clan kept Horace Rumpole, Esq. in claret and cigaros. See John Mortimer’s work.
[cx] Jacobson’s First Rule of History
[cxi] Von Langsdorff was the last name of the captain of the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee sunk after the Battle of the River Plate in 1939.
[cxii] Military slang nomenclature for “behind” using your nose as your Twelve
[cxiii] Justitia is the personification of Lady Justice.
[cxiv] Prison slang for “locked up in the isolation block.”
[cxv] Astute readers may wonder how the Renoir likeness could possibly be present in 1951 when Lydia had removed it from the Beach House in 1944 when she translated back to 1815. T’would seem that the painting would constantly be looping backward from 1944 to 1815 and then moving back forward only to zip backwards again.
This is one of the paradoxes of time travel. Lydia’s return to Darcy House (in the Epilogue of The Exile: The Countess Visits Longbourn and The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier’s Portion) from the Beach House created a new channel through which the Universe flowed after 1815…a reality in which a painting created by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1892 comfortably existed in the decades stretching forward from 1815. That universe existed separately from the “original” where the painting was present only from 1892 to 1944 until they merged together when Thomas and Fanny arrived at Matlock House in 1947. Then the painting could logically exist to play a role in the Wardrobe’s plan.
[cxvi] Lawrence Craven, a family doctor in California, uncovered aspirin’s anti-clotting properties in 1950. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin
[cxvii] From Hindu cosmology, the Universe and time is cyclic and infinite. Each cycle is a Day of Brahma or Kalpa and is equal to 4.32 billion years. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology
[cxviii] Please see Lizzy Bennet Meets the Countess
[cxix] Charles, Prince of Wales, supervised the exhumation of Sir Thomas Michael Bennet’s grave in Longbourn Cemetery in the mid-morning hours of February 27, 1976. The casket was opened, and the Garter Star was pinned to the Baronet’s shroud. The Ribband was also interred with the Baronet.
[cxx] Isser Harel was the second director (1953-63) of the Israeli intelligence service.
[cxxi] Hativat HaTzanhanim (חֲטִיבַת הַצַּנְחָנִים) is the 35th/Paratroopers Brigade. This is the nation’s commando force akin to the United States’ Navy Seals and Army Rangers or the British SAS.
[cxxii] Hannah Arendt. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York, Viking Press, 1963.
[cxxiii] Pierrepoint executed about 550 persons in his long career including some 200 convicted of war crimes in the aftermath of World War II. He retired in the mid-1950s after he concluded that capital punishment was not a deterrent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pierrepoint
[cxxiv] Vincent Joseph Monteleone, Criminal Slang: The Vernacular of the Underworld Lingo. Boston, The Christopher Publishing House, 1949. p 161.
[cxxv] Sanford F. Bennett, American Hymn, 1868.
“In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore;
In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.”
[cxxvi] We’ll Meet Again Lyrics and music by Hughie Charles and Ross Parker, 1939. Performed by Vera Lynn. This was Mrs. Bennet’s favorite song that she regularly begged Mary Benton and Georgiana Darcy to perform for her, especially after Mr. Bennet’s passing in 1815. The first Vera Lynn recording was made with the Bert Ambrose orchestra. The most widely available version of the song (as sung by Dame Lynn) was from the eponymous 1943 motion picture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll_Meet_Again
[cxxvii] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel) accessed 7/26/16.
[cxxviii] Current use, obsolete use, and sub-meanings could bring the total number of words to nearly 750,000. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-words-are-there-in-the-english-language accessed 11/21/16.
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