The Ball and The Cross
Cheat Sheet
Characters
Professor Lucifer - pilot of flying ship
Michael - monk of immense learning, passenger in flying ship
James Turnbull -atheist, editor of the Atheist, fiery young little lowland Scotchman with red hair and beard
Evan MacIan - strict Roman Catholic, a young tall highland Scotchman Celt with black hair.
Cumberland Vane - police magistrate
Moses Solomon - keeper of curiosity shop, a Jew
Henry Gordon - owner of the curiosity shop
Peacemaker - unnamed, suggested to be an angel by MacIan
Morrice Wimpey - little man who enjoyed killing, ex-Fellow of Magdalen
Beatrice Drake - Woman in the motor-car, who helped MacIan and Turnbull escape, love-interest of MacIan
Pierre Durand - hamlet of Haroc, Isle of St. Loup, conventional man by conviction, widower
Madeleine Durand - daughter of Pierre, religious, prayerful, love-interest of Turnbull
Camille Bert (Turnbull in disguise) - courtier of Madeleine
Count Gregory (MacIan in disguise) - accosted Madeleine and consequently challenged by Camille Bert to a duel
Mr. Wilkinson - provided his yacht to Turnbull and MacIan to escape police from Haroc
"God" - an inmate who thinks he's God in a lunatic asylum in Margate in Kent England
"Edward VII" - another inmate who thinks he's King Edward VII
Dr Quayle - Doctor in asylum who told MacIan and Turnbull they were to be treated special
Dr Hutton - his business is to uphold the asylum establishment
The Master - head of the asylum, he placed MacIan and Turnbull into special cells B & C
Man in cell A - old man
Dr Hertz - wrote the program for revolution, His maxim is 'No man should be unemployed. Employ the employables. Destroy the unemployables.'
Definitions
adamantine - unbreakable
Altiora peto - I seek higher things
antinomy - a contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable
asperity - harshness of tone or manner
aquiline - like an eagle
equine - related to horses
leonine - relate to a lion
badinage - humorous or witty conversation
balustrade - a railing supported by balusters, especially an ornamental parapet on a balcony, bridge, or terrace
boot jack - tool to remove boots
Brobdingnagians - the epitome of moral giants. Physically huge
_C'est elle qui--Mais oui, mais oui, c'est elle qui sauvera encore le monde_ - _It's she who - Yes, yes, she's the one who will save the world again_
cicerone - guide who conducts visitors and sightseers to museums
cockade - rosette or knot of ribbons
crapulous - caused by or showing the effects of alcohol
cyclopean - denoting a type of ancient masonry made with massive irregular blocks
Dies irae - the Day of Wrath
dottiness - being extremely interested in some one or thing
eleutheromania - a mania or frantic zeal for freedom
exeat - a permit for temporary absence
felicity - the quality or state of being happy especially great happiness
fugacity - the quality of being fleeting or evanescent
ibsenism - dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen
impecunious - having little or no money
impudence - contemptuous or disregard for others
incommode - inconvenience
insouciance - lack of concern, indifference
Jacobite - a supporter of the exiled Stuart king James II
latitude - number of degrees north of the equator
longitude - number of degrees east of the prime meridian (which passes through Greenwich England)
marmoreal - made of or likened to marble
Medoc - a region of France, well known as a wine growing region
nominalism - the philosophical position that promotes that universal or abstract concepts do not exist in the same way as physical, tangible material
parry - ward off (a weapon or attack) with a countermove
riposte - a quick return thrust following a parry
paling - a fence made from pointed wooden or metal stakes
Proteus - in Greek mythology, the prophetic old man of the sea and shepherd of the sea's flocks (e.g., seals)
recondite - little known
rococo - an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry and scrolling curves
rosinante - a work horse or low-quality horse, but can also mean an illiterate or rough man.
rummier - rum
sagacity - soundness of judgement
Saracens - Arab, Turkish or Persian Muslims
stipendiary - receiving or compensated by wages or salary
stoicism - endurance of pain without display of feelings
switchback - a zigzag road, trail, or section of railroad tracks for climbing a steep hill
tonneau - the part of an automobile, typically an open car, occupied by the back seats
zoetrope - an early form of animation technology. A zoetrope is made up of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. There is a row of images on the inside of the cylinder. The images are sequential
Charles Bradlaugh - English political activist and atheist, founded the National Secular Society in 1866, elected as the Liberal MP for Northampton
St Paul's Cathedral - Anglican cathedral in London
Sir Christopher Wren - designed St Paul's Cathedral