{"id":2556,"date":"2023-05-01T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2023-05-01T16:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:21:45","slug":"coppard-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"Coppard returns…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Like a bad penny this story never dies and after I had this photograph taken yesterday I thought similar and did some more digging and found two new articles on ‘Flynn’ and for those less squeamish that comes from the saying ‘in like Flynn’ about Errol Flynn’s legendary bedding of women.

the full story in Coppard link above but here two new takes on the story..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/second-read\/the-marvellous-forgotten-stories-of-a-e-coppard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came from nothing, and it may be I was never anything more than a contrivance for recording emotions I would fain have taken for my own, but could not\u2013 life passed me by<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From AE Coppard\u2019s semi-autobiographical\u00a0My Hundredth Tale\u00a0written c1930<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham Thomas an English author living in Tokyo has written a very accurate short life of Flynn available here.

Recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AE Coppard – An Oxfordshire Tale.<\/a><\/blockquote>