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Shandon himself, without being aware of it, provides the key to enjoying the book:Īt times the mind works on two levels at once, and it was so with mine on this occasion. Now this might strike you as a bit overwhelming, or even a bit tedious, but it isn’t. His degree is in business administration. What adds to the pleasure is that Shandon himself has no idea of what’s happened to him. From the very first, every person he meets, every place he goes, everything that happens to him, alludes to some piece of literature. It doesn’t take long, in fact he’s still in the water, for the well-read person to begin to find a certain quality of familiarity in the narrative, to figure out that Shandon has made landfall in the Commonwealth of Letters. Clarence Shandon – re-christened Silverlock due to a white streak in his hair - on his journey of self-discovery after being shipwrecked on the shores of the Commonwealth. On the surface, the book tells the story of A. It doesn’t take very long to go from these thoughts to the great masterwork of this type, John Myers Myers’s Silverlock. It’s also a bit intimidating, from the point of view of a writer, to realize just how thoroughly de Camp and Pratt had to know their source materials. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt’s Compleat Enchanter and it occurred to me that one of the great pleasures of that work is encountering familiar myths, persons, and fictional events in a new guise and from a new perspective.