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Ignoring your foes

You can see Mr Flay side-stepping the presence of his mortal foe, Swelter, as one side-steps other unpleasantness in one's...

Homer's Iliad pulsates with war and violence, sometimes wrapped in glory but often shrouded as much in sorrow. Here, hostility and quarrel...

Bronte has a sometimes arresting pithiness, and here she provides an explanation for the hatred underlying riots and machine wrecking...

Surely one of the most memorable methods for mass disposal of enemies. Hard to compute the numbers in this recipe. ...

Swelter is assailed by life-sapping loathing for Flay, who returns the compliment. Their battle is astounding for its intensity and...

Flay and Swelter, pitched in a life and death struggle, are at physically opposite extremes - Flay, wiry, knobbly, skinny,...

In with the gore and glory of Homer's war-words, there are repeated expressions of sorrow at human hatred. 'Soul-perishing' echoes...

A perfectly horrific way to intimate the dreadful anticipation of a mortal enemy. Here Flay realizes, when the hated Chef...

Swelter, the button-popping portly chef and Flay, the all purpose butler, valet and loyal servant of the Earl of Gormenghast,...