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Archers Review recently had the chance to catch up with author Angus Donald, the man behind the Outlaw Chronicles series of books, based on the legends of Robin Hood but with a rather different twist. Here Angus talks about the man Robin Hood was really likely to be, the true hero of his books and an excerpt from the latest in the series, The Iron Castle due out in July this year.
Robin Hood is an archer. In many ways he is the archer. And when I started writing the Outlaw Chronicles more than ten years ago, I was fascinated by this character – the deadly bowman, the hunter of beast and men, who lurks in the wilderness, outside law and society and brings justice to the oppressed people of England with his simple wooden peasant's weapon.
I took two or three lessons with a long bow, to give myself the flavour of the sport, and trailed around the woodland watching other far better bowmen demonstrate their prowess. But I discovered that my skills lay at the keyboard, not at the butts, and I soon retreated to my own domain and began to think about what sort of man a real Robin Hood would have been and to begin my research into the man and the period. I wanted to describe an authentic 12th-century outlaw, a man who had the strength of character, the charisma, to lead a band of medieval outlaws. I quickly came to the conclusion that a real Robin Hood would have had to have been a very tough customer indeed. I began to picture a ruthless man, a brutal man, someone who could command fear and respect from the dregs of society, from desperate killers and thieves who lived outside the law, men who lived harder lives even than ordinary medieval peasants. In short, I began to see Robin Hood as a sort of gangster.
And that is when the central, radical idea for the Outlaw Chronicles was born.
I also realised that my Robin, though charming and very loyal to his friends, wasn't a very nice man. Gangsters aren't. He is compelled to do some nasty, brutal things to maintain his position as top dog, and I worried that many of my readers would be put off by this side of his character. And so I invented a sidekick, a foil for Robin, a good guy. Alan Dale. Alan Dale is the true hero of my books. He is a mere youngster at the start of the series, a thief on the run from the sheriff, but he grows into a gifted swordsman and trouvere, a sort of 12th-century poet-musician. Alan has the freedom to travel western Europe at Robin's behest, playing music for the various noblemen and doing a little spying on the side for his lord. Robin and Alan frequently clash with each other, usually because Robin has done something appalling and Alan is furious with him. But their friendship endures and I am now beginning to write their seventh adventure together called The Bloody Charter, out next summer.
My books are called (in chronological order): Outlaw, Holy Warrior, King's Man, Warlord, Grail Knight and The Iron Castle. And there is an extract from the last one, which comes out in July, at the bottom of the page.
This, however, is an essay that I wrote about Robin Hood at the beginning of my writer's journey, and is all about who I think he would have been if he really had existed. I hope you enjoy it.
Robin Hood is a wraith in Lincoln green, a shadowy figure who peers out at us through the dense foliage of the forests of time; hooded, anonymous and yet terribly familiar. But was there ever a real man on whom all the ballads, books and films are all based and, if there was, what would he have been like in the flesh?
Robin makes his first appearance in English literature in a 1370s poem by William Langland known as Piers Plowman. In it, there is a line about a lazy cleric who knows the popular oral stories of Robin Hood better than he knows his prayers. So we know the tales of Robin were a byword by the second half of the 14th century.
Around the middle of the 15th century, the oral stories of Robin Hood first began to be preserved as printed ballads, which were passed around the populace and performed by musicians at public events. These early ballads, however, are not very helpful when it comes to investigating Robin's life and times. A Gest of Robyn Hode, a ballad printed in the early 16th century, mentions that the king in Robin Hood's time is "Edward". There were three Edwards on the English throne, from 1272 to 1377; could this mean that Robin was active during this century? Probably not. Other early ballads state that the king is Richard I (r. 1189-1199). So all we can really deduce from the first written forms of the tales is that Robin Hood may have operated at some time between about 1180 and 1370 – a period of nearly 200 years.
Perhaps, then, the law can shed light on England's most famous outlaw. The first references to a possible Robin Hood figure occur in legal documents in the first half of the 13th century. From the 1230 onwards there are many legal records listing people who fell foul of the law called "Robehod" or "Robert Hood" or "Robyn Hod" and other variants. But none yet has convincingly been shown to be the legendary outlaw. In fact, as Robert was a very common name, as was its diminutive Robin, and as Hood was also well used, it would be surprising if there were not records of Robert Hoods coming into contact with the authorities. Indeed, Robin Hood may not be a name at all – it may be a job description. In some medieval English dialects "Hood" and "Wood" are synonyms, and some writers have suggested that Robert is a pun on the French pronunciation. If so, Robert Hood is just a robber of the wood.
However, our best guess is that there was once a notorious but popular outlaw called Robert or Robin Hood and that he probably lived some time between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th. And this is the period in which I have set my Outlaw Chronicles, during the reigns of Richard the Lionheart and King John. For me, it is a fascinating period: a time of crusade and Magna Carta; a time of constant brutal warfare but also the flowering of poetry, music and courtly love.
So what would a late 12th-century outlaw have been like as a man? The answer will disappoint those seeking a do-gooding, thigh-slapping, gentlemanly archer. A medieval outlaw would have been a desperate fellow, filthy, ragged, very violent; basically a homeless mugger and murderer. The ballads occasionally hint at the ruthless nature of Robin and his gang. In Robin Hood and The Monk (c1450), the earliest surviving ballad, outlawed Robin is spotted by a monk while praying at a church in Nottingham. The monk reports Robin to the Sheriff, who captures our hero. Later, the monk is brutally executed by Little John for informing on Robin, and Much the miller's son casually kills a little boy who witnesses this act to stop him giving evidence of the murder. It's difficult to imagine one of Errol Flynn's merry men casually slaughtering a child to stop him squealing to the sheriff.
The Robin Hood of my books is a hard man, ruthless, occasionally cruel, and like all real medieval magnates primarily concerned with money and power. But he does have a more noble side. He cares nothing for those outside his familia, his relatives, friends and those who faithfully serve him – those outside are merely his prey. But for the lucky few inside his charmed circle, he will willingly give his life.
Angus Donald, author of the Outlaw Chronicles
This is an exclusive extract from The Iron Castle (out July 2014):
It is September 1203, and Robin Hood and his lieutenant Sir Alan Dale are attacking a French pontoon bridge over the River Seine
"Robin was standing high on the prow like a pirate, his green cloak fluttering out behind him in the breeze off the water, is sword sheathed and a long yew bow in his hands. As I watched, he drew a shaft from the quiver at his waist, nocked it, pulled the cord back to his ear and loosed and I saw the black line of the arrow arc up and down and slam into the chest of a man-at-arms on the pontoon, knocking him back into the press of his fellows. Robin loosed again, and another Frenchman died. Other bowmen among the Wolves were loosing too, dozens of shafts soaring high and smashing into the waiting ranks of the enemy. But the French were taking their toll on us, too. Crossbow bolts whipped and cracked all around, swooping down from the high tower on the eastern bank of the pontoon bridge – now just fifty yards away. I got to my feet and felt my own legs trembling. Thirty yards to go. A quarrel thwacked into my shield and I tucked my shoulder and as much of my body as I could into the lee of its protection. Another iron-tipped missile screamed off my helmet. Twenty yards. I mumbled a prayer to St Michael, the warrior archangel, begging him to keep us safe. Ten yards. Five. Then, with a crash of timbers and a deafening roar from defenders and attackers alike, the prow of our boat smashed into the lashed craft of the bridge. Robin leaped on to the pontoon, his bow abandoned, and his naked sword swinging like a scythe, taking the head clean off a yelling Frenchman Wolves were leaping up from their vessels to get at the French above them. But just as I readied myself to jump, a boat from our own convoy racing in behind us hammered into our bows, and I was knocked from my feet by the unexpected impact. The boat swung around, side on to the bridge, and as I scrambled to my feet, almost blinded by my helmet, a screaming man-at-arms jumped down onto the deck and lunged at me with a spear. I took the point on my shield and Kit cut the legs from under him with a sweep of his sword to the back of his knee, a move we had practised endlessly in the courtyard at Falaise.
I struggled to the prow, my movements slow, my armour weighing down my limbs. I felt as if I was wading through cold honey, as in one of those dreams where everything moves at a crawling pace. I bent my knees and leapt upwards; landing heavily on the deck of a wherry lashed in its position in the bridge. Two men were jabbing at me with spear and sword. I killed the swordsman, Fidelity breaking his neck, but the spear crunched hard into the iron mail guarding my belly. I was winded but not pierced, thank God. I stepped past the spear shaft, and killed the man at the other end, crushing his skull with one heavy blow through his thin helmet. I shoved another man backwards with my shield, trying to make room for the Wolves to come up beside me on to the bridge, and stepped into the press, stabbing, cutting and slicing into the wall of men. There were enemies shouting and jostling all around me. But there were cries, too, of "Locksley! Locksley!" coming from behind me that fired my sprits. I was dimly aware of Kit to my left, his sword jabbing forward, again and again. I cut down a man-at-arms on my right; I blocked a savage mace blow from a knight behind him; shoved the tip of Fidelity through his open visor, punched it home, and he fell away screaming. I felt my familiar battle rhythm coming to my rescue: cut and shove, and thrust and slice; sword and shield acting together in a perfect marriage, as the good Lord intended them to, to batter and pound other lesser men into submission. I hacked and cut. I cursed at my enemies as I killed them, and trampled their bodies under my mail-shod feet as my bloody sword rose and fell.
I glimpsed Robin not three yards away; protected by four Wolves who held off a wall of enemies as my lord sliced with an axe at the thigh-fat cables connecting the bridge of boats. Kit was immediately to my left, finishing a Frenchman I had wounded in the leg. A man leapt at me screaming, and I dropped him with a straight lunge that cracked through his ribs and into the bloody cavity beyond. He fell gurgling, dragging my sword arm down with him. But there were two more of his fellows behind him. I ducked the first sword strike, blocked the second with my shield, hauling Fidelity with some difficulty free of the chest of the dragging corpse. And then . . .
And then something solid and heavy smashed into the side of my helmet – I knew not what – and I staggered back a pace or two. My vision dipped and swum; streaks and flashes of red and black. The world was slowly revolving. Something shoved hard against my shield-side. My bloody sword was flailing madly in empty air, I stepped back another pace . . . and into the void. And, dream-like again, and I felt myself falling, falling for an age, falling for eternity. For hours I hung between the wood and the water, or so it seemed, before my body splashed into the cold, shocking embrace of the river. My helmet immediately filled with water. My eyes, nose and ears terrifyingly awash. And down, down I plunged, sucked down swiftly, head first into the cold, the darkness, into a frigid Hell. I managed to shake loose my shield, but kept a death-grip on Fidelity's hilt. My heavy mail pulled me down as if I was roped to a mill stone. I kicked my legs in desperation, I clutched at the river with my free hand, grasping, scooping, trying to lift my body, but to no avail, I sank deeper and deeper, my lungs burned for air, the pressure unbearable but growing, growing ever more powerful. My belly twitched; I had to breathe. My whole body craved the air with a desperate, total necessity. But the icy darkness had me in firmly its possession. The ancient waters claimed me. And I yielded to them. I opened my mouth, the river rushed in and all the world turned black."
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On the art of persuasion
I liked how Lexicon touched on the power of words and our responses them to them. In this novel, a character is tested and trained as a 'poet' to coerce people through distinctive verbal and/or behavioural cues. The competitive, grim and isolated nature of the Academy reminded me of the school in Lev Grossman's The Magicians.
Lexicon looks at the different levels of persuasion. It's a sci-fi thriller that starts off with two separate storylines which eventually converge as the story unravels. The opening of the novel has an good grip on the reader but some of the longer character conversations occasionally slowed down the pacing. Many of the characters are flawed so they can be unlikeable at times but it suited the tone of the genre.
I found that I was intrigued by the secondary repressed characters towards the end. Perhaps that's why I preferred the grim climax over the epilogue.
This was the first time I'd come across the term neurolinguistics. I'd like to read more about the topic. Kudos to the agents/poets with code-names like Bronte, Eliot, Woolf, Dickinson etc.
I don't read many thrillers but Lexicon's themes of control and power reminded me of the TV shows Alias, Dollhouse, the anime Code Geass and the film Read or Die.
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June 11 10:40AM unusual, yes. weeding out; the conservative; the short-sighted; the judgmental; the uptight; the uneducated; and now, the unhappy. June 10 watching and waiting June 9 7:47 not an airplane. Guillermo on a friday night; even a half-guillermo knocks you out when you're out of the habit. poots sits to reflect, today, moreso. alone with a tepid blue cup of joe, as long as things and people are swirling around me, i never feel alone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RYUp7gYHwg not much else, headache and small breasted, little poots trolls youtube ringing ears, sticky tongue, physicalness takes over. 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On ''American Idol,'' a visit from Jon Bon Jovi inspires some performances that could change the game entirely; plus, Simon gets mushy
"American Idol": Bon Jovi rocks the boat
Jon Bon Jovi, I owe you an apology. On the latest episode of Idolatry, I openly mocked your songbook and blasted the producers of American Idol for forgoing a rock & roll theme in favor of an evening built solely around your greatest hits. But while I still believe that your ham-handed turns of phrase and rote choruses are the very definition of bad medicine, I must also admit that said bad medicine is exactly what Idol needed.
You see, for 11 weeks now, I've been longing for a contestant (any contestant, really) to perform a number with a kind of emotional intensity that has nothing to do with trying to win a reality-TV singing competition and everything to do with the higher calling of (if you'll allow me to have a Paula moment) making me feel a song all the way down to my soul. I've wanted to see young singers risk their Idol dreams by reinventing or rearranging well-known songs in bold, audacious ways. I've dreamed of seeing the finalists step outside their comfort zones and discover that their musical limitations were entirely self-imposed. I've wanted these wannabes to understand the judges' well-worn advice to always "sing like it's your last time on stage."
This week, all four of those wishes got fulfilled, and while credit must be spread among four individual contestants, my first (and most enthusiastic) standing ovation goes to LaKisha Jones. Tonight, LaKisha did not borrow. She did not rent with an option to purchase. She absolutely frickin' owned "This Ain't a Love Song" — and no matter what happens on Wednesday night's results show, it will always be hers. Keepin' it really real, Kiki was a headband away from looking like a rejected extra from the set of Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" video, but that odd red-lace and black-Lycra corset-leotard thingie could not detract from the emotional intensity of a transcendent performance. LaKisha has never been a professional backup singer. She hasn't been groomed for stardom since childhood. She's just a humble bank teller from Fort Meade, Md., who did what no other season 6 contestant has done this year: She got me reaching for the Kleenex. That Simon actually broke character and adorably shared a kiss with the single mom made me feel a little less embarrassed about going misty — but also reinforced my fear that because last week's votes also count toward this week's eliminations, we've probably heard the last of Miss Jones. I'm just glad she also got to show a little of the trademark sass that's been so muted the past few weeks, especially when she told Ryan, "I want the camera to get my slim side."
Maybe I'm wrong, though. After all, Bon Jovi himself declared he'd bet that LaKisha would survive the week. But if I had to put money down at this very moment on which singer is most likely to stick around, I'd place my wager on Blake Lewis, whose electrifying retooling of "You Give Love a Bad Name" has likely surpassed Mindy Doo's "My Funny Valentine" as the season's watercooler performance. Bon Jovi was right that "16 measures of him not singing on a show that's supposed to highlight singers" was a risky move (though not as risky as sharing Jordin's black-and-red hair dye), and Blake's whooshing opening sound effects (which sounded to me like the Diet Coke I crack open every morning around 7 a.m.) were a wee bit indulgent, but the rest of the performance was exhilarating — breathing life into what I'd written off as a tired '80s anthem. The "you give love-lllll-love-love-lll-love a bad, bad name" breakdown had me clapping like baby-seal Paula, and while the judges seemed a little tentative in their praise, this was the performance that — whether or not it secured Blake a spot in the final two — pretty much guaranteed him a record deal.
Yet as much credit as I give Blake for bending his song choice into his own personal style, I've got to give Melinda Doolittle equal credit for (once again) venturing into new genre territory, and (almost) completely conquering it. Indeed, I'd argue she rocked harder on "Have a Nice Day" than any of her five competitors — shimmying back-to-back with the guitarist, making that fearsome facial expression after her closing note, letting the gravel in her voice jeopardize (but not ruin) her record of total pitch perfection. As Simon rightfully noted, Mindy Doo discovered her inner Tina! My only issue with the entire performance was the way Melinda refused to take ownership of her performance after she'd finished, offering a tentative shrug when she should've kicked over the mike stand and threatened to bite the head off a dove. (Just kidding.) Oh, also, I thought she was just slightly behind the beat on the final 30 seconds, but the expression "rock on with your bad self" nonetheless applies — and a Melinda-free final four is inconceivable.
I'm not so certain about Phil, whose clear, strong rendition of "Blaze of Glory" was the best performance he's given all season, but perhaps only the evening's fourth best. Combine it with a slightly forgettable showing during "Idol Gives Back" week, and he might be giving a repeat reading of the line "I'm goin' out in a blaze of glory" during Wednesday's results show. If he does make his exit, the young gun can leave with his head held high. The judges are never going to love him — was Paula's comment that "this is a year of your life you'll never forget" supposed to come off as praise? — but the bald-headed dude did not miss a single note, and his gray jacket with groovy black embroidery cracks my list of the five best articles of clothing (men's division) for the season. Where'd he get it? And can I afford it? (Only if I win big on the Kentucky Derby this weekend. Go Street Sense!)
Sorry for yet another horse-racing reference, but since the damage is done, can I say that we're left with Chris Richardson and Jordin Sparks bringing up the back of the pack? And yes, I'm listing them in order. "Wanted Dead or Alive" was certainly one of Chris R.'s personal-best performances, mostly on key and with very little "nasally," but at this point, he just seems outclassed — compared with both the current crop of finalists and those of seasons past. Indeed, given Chris R.'s own mention of Chris Daughtry's superior season 5 cover of "Wanted," you have to wonder why he didn't opt for a different song. Maybe he's got the same hunch as Simon: He did as much as he could have possibly hoped to do, and it's probably not enough to help him crack the top four. Even so, I thought it was kind of a low blow for Ryan to introduce the dude as "Justin Timberlake."
Oh, and speaking of low blows, how bad did Jordin's lower register blow (sorry) on "Livin' on a Prayer," the Kraft Shells and Cheese of the genre. Right from the opening seconds, it was clear most of the verse's notes would be out of the perky front-runner's grasp — much like the basic concepts of working on the docks, working at a diner, and being down on one's luck. And yet, somehow, as Jordin finished the song and then blissfully admitted to the judges that her performance left something to be desired, I found myself humming the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show: "Who can turn the world on with her smile?" (Jordin!) "Who can take a nothing performance, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?" (Didn't her red-streaked perm look adorable?) I mean, the girl described her new 'do by invoking the contestant whose name really should not be spoken ("I picked up where S**j**a left off") and yet, I can't bring myself to send my Team Jordin membership card through the shredder. Add in the windfall of votes she likely got for last week's "You'll Never Walk Alone," and I bet she's not even in the bottom three. That said, if the camera crew is as unkind to her next week as they were tonight (randomly cutting away, spending too much time focused on her back) she could wind up with this season's Tamyra Gray Trophy for most shocking early exit. Either that, or some random camera dude will get the heave-ho from Ryan a week from Wednesday.
What did you think of Bon Jovi night? Why was the singers' rehearsal space filled with hanging Persian rugs? Which was more mortifying: LaKisha's comment that she didn't know Bon Jovi's music but she'd seen him on Oprah, or Jordin's remark that her mother grew up on his music? And did I really see the president and the First Lady at the end of the episode, or was that some sort of hallucination caused by way too much Idol, and way too little of everything else for the last four months?
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Artist's Statement: Reduce to nullity
I always have to disassemble items or deconstruct conceptions in my work, but when some industrial ready-made came into my sight, I felt a sense of obstacle, the obstacle between the phenomenon and the material trapping me from feeling nature made me instinctively confused. Differ from touching the stone and wood, ready-made objects makes me feel like separated part to inherent nature. Modern society is highly integrated, including our knowledge system and cognitive experience, surely, in this way we can skip some steps of the process, it seems that behaviors and its products become more effective, but this also makes social items no longer Outside-equal-within, the specialty of an era is its epitome, ready-made objects' materiality is veiled, alluding to the gap in the relationship between man and nature in contemporary world.
The "Sub-" Series is to replace the functional part of one tool that I noticed with single one self-formation attribute material[1] which I've found in this secondary Nature around me, so as to reconstitute a object, and finally all the tools, products, residuum I made during the process of reconstitution will be presented as installation or mixed media in the space, they are all connected to each other to form a bigger entirety. The process of doing creative works is also a part of my work, just like dissecting and then suturing back, I will disassemble the found objects, wipe off the functional material, then as the replacement, I will choose and remold a self-formation material, eventually, combine them with residuum of found objects. Both in my life and work, I'd like to make myself sense of mystery and unknown deliberately[2], because accepting ready-made would make people too lazy to think and feel, I won't turn to ready method, unless I've got to face some professional problem, in this situation, I also ask the professionals for help, but still left unanswered, so I realized the difference between them and me, they try their best to do the plus, to make the thing better, more complex, what I am trying to do is subtraction, reducing the accessory of one function.
If I have to sum up the contemporary society, that would be Effective. You can see "how to do it fast", "how to do it effectively", "the quickest way" everywhere, but that makes me wonder why we have to put ourselves in such a kind of efficiency? What is the result of this kind of efficiency? Can we live more effective and compress the life processes? At least in my personal experience, high efficiency won't always bring you the good results, it's a kind of paralysis. My creative process always avoid efficiency methods, though it's not my topic but more like a kind of disciplining, I always have to face a large number of failures and wastes in the experiments of creation. There are many different ways to accomplish an image, the curve process I chose tend not to appear in the final image, but I believe that it is necessary for me. The work can be the form or image, but the art itself is much more than this, the effective illustrative images are necessary, and also successful in art, but the artists have to persevere their own language against the inertia of entrenched groups, what you have to believe first is not theory, knowledge, experience, but your instincts.
[1] Self-formation attribute: This conception refers to a material that will obtain an attribute, which can reflect as a function after its formation, such as glass's stress fracture, the pieces are shape naturally, unlike metal blade, it needs to be put a edge as secondary structure by grounding, in order to hold a incising function.
[2] Without using the network searching, inquiring, consulting and other means to obtain knowledge, but though practicing, these methods are almost like a kind of empiricism. Sometimes these kinds of behaviors are repeating the works of scientists, alchemists, but different purposes. For me, knowledge is accessory of feelings I expected. Such as my first hobbit, insects, I 've always been avoiding the study of Entomology, because I won't get any thrill of exploring the unknown if learnt what it is before I find it in reality.


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