Talk:Lord of the World

message: The author of the video posted it on Youtube. This said, I am not comfortable enough to be sure about the state of the law with regards to such cases. Is it "public domain" or does it fall under a copyright or copyleft category once this happens? Simple technicality, yet one I do not know much about. If you know about such things, feel free to edit main page accordingly by stating clearly "public domain" or else.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.127.198.72 (talk) 17:49, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Youtube video link to full film

message: I've redirected the Volor page (a much tagged sub-stub) here. The author refers to large, delicate, floating machines with wings and a screw. There are elements reminiscent of a Zeppelin or an Ornithopter.
:The thing is that volors also feature in The Dawn of All by the same author, at least.--131.159.76.228 (talk) 18:27, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Volor

message: I have seen numerous claims that Fulton Sheen listed the book among three books of special note for modern readers, but I can not find a direct quotation from him. It may even be in an introduction to the book in a printing around his time but I am unable to find anything with certainty. I note it here in the hopes that others may have better luck.
Wowaconia (talk) 02:04, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been looking without success, too!Kingstowngalway (talk) 21:50, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fulton Sheen talks about the book 

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message: "as Advent moved to Christmas".  I encourage someone familiar with the plot to cut this to perhaps one third or one quarter of what it is.
And I don't understand the meaning of "literally" in the last sentence, "Literally describing a deus ex machina, the last words of the novel are: "Then this world passed, and the glory of it."  These 'last words' do not seem to describe a "deus ex machina". 
And why all the pictures?  Interesting in a book about the novels, but not here. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 20:43, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  plot summary far too long 

message: Could someone confirm that:
1) "Fr. Franklin suspected that Fr. Francis may be a police informant"? He seems anxious not to stay friends with an atheist, but nothing clearly points to "police informant" theory (unless Benson said something to that effect, which is meta-textual).
2) "Marxist uprising toppled the Son of Heaven"? Novels isn't clear on it at all - my reading is that "Eastern Convention" possibly run by "Sufis" is gearing up to war. Then Felsenburgh gives a lot of speeches and the Convention is dispersed. Some hail him as Mahdi. Emperor's role is unclear - he may be part of the war effort, but then seems to support Felsenburgh ("Empire is sending him everywhere", clearly not the American Republic) and thanks him afterwards. Phrase "Son of Heaven" is used only once and I can't see any clear indication that the Emperor was ever toppled.
--13:29, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Police informant and Marxist uprising 

message: It is mentioned in the caption to his picture, but not in the text (where it could have appeared in the section 'Influences') that Ramsay MacDonald, in Benson's lifetime not yet a minister in government, was a probable model for Felsenburgh. It would be an improvement if it could be put into the text with citation and some indication of the degree to which Benson was familiar with MacDonald or had quoted opinions of him. The text only mentions another candidate, Evan Roberts. I also query the uncited statement that the Labour Party were an amalgamation of Marxist groups, when not all Labour MPs and activists had an agenda to achieve socialism by violent revolutionary means or looked to atheistic Karl Marx as their model.Cloptonson (talk) 19:15, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Ramsay MacDonald as model for Julius Felsenburgh

message: Please can someone clarify which of R H Benson's brothers Sir Oliver Lodge wrote the quoted letter to - was it Edward Frederick or Arthur Christopher?Cloptonson (talk) 10:06, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Which Benson brother Lodge wrote to? (section Release and reception)

message: Even in the fragments that don't directly tell the plot of the book, the article describes all prominent socialists as "Marxists", which denotes a specific sociopolitical school rather than all socialist ideologies. For example: H.G Wells, a socialist who criticised Marxism, is called a Marxist in the text. Ozajasz (talk) 10:35, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with your comment, see my own of 2021 above.Cloptonson (talk) 18:10, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insistence on "Marxism" instead of "Socialism" or "Communism" 

message: In its present state, the article is almost entirely concerned with the opinions of those who 1) were/are Catholic and 2) heaped/heap gushing or close-to-gushing praise upon the book. Where are the opinions of those Catholic who don't believe the book to be deserving of such gushing praise? Where are the opinions of non-Catholic Christians, e.g. those Protestants that the book claims would be so easily overrun by Marxist forces? Where are the opinions of those who are completely outside the Christian orbit, and I don't mean those who were supposedly delighted by the book's ending? And, since this was published as (and has effectively turned out to be) a work of fiction, albeit with a strong religious bent, why are there no opinions on the book's literary merits?
Additionally, I second User:Ozajasz's concerns about how the article uses the term 'Marxist' to describe any and all socialist/left-wing viewpoints rather than a specific strand thereof. Furthermore, Anna Abrikosova is described as 1) a former Marxist despite there being nothing in her article to indicate she ever exhibited socialist/left-wing views and 2) a "future martyr" despite her death being due to natural causes (i.e. spinal cancer) rather than any deliberate action by Stalin's death squads; while one could argue that gulag conditions contributed to her death, it remains far removed from that which met the average martyr of the Roman era, Magdalene of Nagasaki, Andrew Bobola, and so on. - Dvaderv2 (talk) 21:41, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV