| 词条 | Magersfontein Lugg |
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Magersfontein Lugg is a fictional character in the Albert Campion novels, written by Margery Allingham. Servant and factotum to Mr Campion, Lugg is a former burglar, with a gruff manner, who hinders Campion socially as much as he helps detection-wise. AppearancesLugg first appears in Mystery Mile, where his contacts in the underworld prove useful; he goes on to be featured in most of the Campion books. Lugg also features in novels by John Lawton, most notably Black Out [1] (see review on Amazon.com). CharacterLugg is a large, bald man, a former criminal who reformed after he "lost his figure". In Police at the Funeral, he has recently grown a very large white moustache, which he also sports in Sweet Danger. Lugg, in The Fashion in Shrouds, is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide".[2] This sentence frequently appeared in Mad magazine and has achieved some notoriety as an Internet meme. Unfortunately, it is seldom attributed to either Lugg or Allingham. The sentence contains English slang and means, "It's madness (crackers) to slip a policeman (rozzer) a packet of money (the dropsy) in worthless money (snide)" or "it's madness to try to bribe a policeman with counterfeit money". Explaining why Lugg never seemed to age over the series of books, Allingham herself suggested that, like the detective's horn rims, Lugg was “part of Mr Campion's personal accoutrements...Lugg is his sense of humour, and is disliked by some of his best friends”[3] as a result. The pair have also been seen as a classic comic act,[4] the one hypermanic, the other the lugubrious foil for Campion's wit.[5] P. D. James however considered the character too close to the traditional stage cockney for full effect.[6] In fact, Lugg's character is more subtle and nuanced than that. Mr Campion himself displays the indifference to social standing which betokens those who have been born to it; like the legendary "true aristocrat" which it is constantly hinted that he is, he associates freely and without embarrassment with all classes of people. Lugg, in order to prick this cosmopolitan insouciance, affects—when it suits him—a comic aspiration to "better himself" and to lift both himself and Campion "out of the gutter," an aspiration constantly frustrated by Campion's insistence on mixing himself up with crime. In this way he often succeeds in shaming, or at least embarrassing, Campion, and thus the status dynamic between the two men is made far more interesting and attractive than the traditional master-servant relationship as typified by Lord Peter Wimsey and his man Bunter. Lugg's first name has been linked to the unfortunate British defeat in the Battle of Magersfontein during the Boer War.[7] PortrayalsIn the 1959 TV series Lugg was played by Wally Patch and in the 1989 TV series, Campion, Lugg was played by ex-wrestler Brian Glover. See also
References1. ^https://www.amazon.com/Black-Out-Inspector-Troy-Thriller/dp/0802145566/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399470357&sr=1-1&keywords=black+out+lawton 2. ^Margery Allingham. The Fashion in Shrouds (New York: Felony & Mayhem, 2008) p. 58. 3. ^M. Allingham, 'Preface', Mr Campion's Lady (London 1973) p. 12 4. ^L. Panek, Watteau's Shepherds (1979) p. 139 5. ^B. Shaw, Jolly Good Detecting (2013) p. 112 6. ^P. D. James, Talking About Detective Fiction (Oxford 2009) p. 96 7. ^B. Shaw, Jolly Good Detecting (2013) p. 112 1 : Characters in British novels |
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