An out-take from ‘Dark Crystal’ where one of the Pod People developed hypnotic powers. Still more plausible casting than John Simm, Anthony Ainley or TV’s Eric Roberts.
“Master, does a cow have Buddha-nature?”
“Knock it off, that’s an old joke.”
“Mooooo…” giggle
“100 laps around the monastery, smart ass, and no more ‘herbal medicine’ for you.”
I read that when I was a kid! A creepy, 180-year old mad-scientist type living inside a hollowed-out Rockall tries to take over the world with a sonic weapon and is foiled by a pair of twins and their mongrel dog. Written by the guy who wrote The Sword in the Stone. Totally bonkers. Make it into a serial, Netflix!
July 16th, 2018 at 10:38 am
“That’s it… that’s it… apply the maple syrup…”
July 16th, 2018 at 11:07 am
Look into my eyes.
You are getting sleepy
You will buy a copy of this book …
… Hey stop walking away laughing!
July 16th, 2018 at 1:53 pm
‘…for a moment you could not recall the color of his eyes.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJd4AnyEtBQ
July 16th, 2018 at 1:58 pm
If you look through the peephole and see this, DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR.
July 16th, 2018 at 3:28 pm
Wish I could escape the charm and humor of this cover. Actually, I wish I could find the charm and humor of this cover.
July 16th, 2018 at 5:00 pm
An out-take from ‘Dark Crystal’ where one of the Pod People developed hypnotic powers. Still more plausible casting than John Simm, Anthony Ainley or TV’s Eric Roberts.
July 16th, 2018 at 6:09 pm
@Tat Wood: Why, do you think this looks like one of those three? Because I’m really not seeing the resemblance in this picture.
Mind you, with some Masters this appearance could only be an improvement.
July 16th, 2018 at 6:28 pm
@Anna T: what are you on about? I didn’t say it looked like them, I said it looked like a Pod Person.
July 16th, 2018 at 7:03 pm
Does “Master” mean “Zen Master”? Because if it does, I think I know the sorts of charm and humor we can expect:
What did the Zen Master say to the Hot Dog vendor?
Make me one with everything.
July 16th, 2018 at 8:11 pm
It’s obviously Yoda applying his Jedi mind tricks on us all…Say, I’m suddenly in the mood to go out and fill up on avocados.
July 16th, 2018 at 8:43 pm
And when he paid the Hot Dog vendor, the Zen Master asked for his change. But the vendor said ‘change must come from within.’
July 16th, 2018 at 11:54 pm
@Tor M—Ah, it seems you know the way of Zen. Surely then, you know the most famous of all Zen koans:
Student: Master, doth the hot dog possess Buddha nature?
Master: Mu(stard)!!
July 17th, 2018 at 5:39 am
Do we have a tag for “bilious”? Because that’s what this cover is, in several senses of the word.
July 17th, 2018 at 5:48 am
@GSSxn—Well struck with “bilious,” le mot juste, GSS! 😉
July 18th, 2018 at 2:16 am
@B. C. (# 12) –
…and the student asked Joshu, the Master, “Master, does an electrical appliance have Buddha-nature?” Joshu said only “mu(metal)”.
Kinda lame, but the best I can do this evening.
July 18th, 2018 at 4:14 am
@Hammy—Hey, not bad. At GSS it’s all in the trying! 😉
July 18th, 2018 at 6:58 am
“Master, does a cow have Buddha-nature?”
“Knock it off, that’s an old joke.”
“Mooooo…” giggle
“100 laps around the monastery, smart ass, and no more ‘herbal medicine’ for you.”
@BC: thanks!
July 25th, 2018 at 6:52 pm
I read that when I was a kid! A creepy, 180-year old mad-scientist type living inside a hollowed-out Rockall tries to take over the world with a sonic weapon and is foiled by a pair of twins and their mongrel dog. Written by the guy who wrote The Sword in the Stone. Totally bonkers. Make it into a serial, Netflix!
July 26th, 2018 at 4:06 am
@Cat Mara: Southern Television adapted it in 1966, with Olaf Pooley in the title role as I recall.
November 27th, 2021 at 10:15 pm
Editor: “So you’ve got the cover art done, finally. Did you try to capture T.H. White’s inescapable charm and humour?”
Artist: “Damn! DAMN IT! I knew there were two things I’d forgotten!”
November 27th, 2021 at 10:48 pm
The back cover. It’s ‘rousing entertainment’.
https://www.biblio.com/book/master-white-th/d/956782641#gallery-2
November 28th, 2021 at 12:01 am
IIRC, the Master is finally defeated in a very stereotypically old person way – he (SPOILER)
trips over the dog and breaks his hip.
Really, a bit anticlimactic.
November 29th, 2021 at 12:26 am
Rousing entertainment.
I do not think that phrase means what the blurb thinks it does.
Two annoying kids and a dog (all having names ending in Y) (why?) cause an old man to break a hip. Woo-ee, so rousing.