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A Feast Unknown


A FEAST UNKNOWN
Volume IX of
The Memoirs of Lord Grandrith
edited by Philip Jos├й Farmer

EDITORтАЩS NOTE

Lord Grandrith has written nine volumes of autobiography, totaling close to a million and a half words.
Yet this volume, the latest, covering only a part of 1968, is the only one published. Lord Grandrith had
planned to publish all the volumes someday, when it became possible to reveal his true identity and true
story. However, Grandrith turned against the Nine who had given him the elixir of prolonged youth.
The first eight volumes are hidden in a place only Grandrith and his wife know. He made
arrangements through the editor to publish Volume IX after he had failed to get it published in England,
France, Sweden, South Africa, and at several houses in the United States. Grandrith states the Nine were
behind the rejections and the various тАЬaccidentsтАЭ to and тАЬlosingsтАЭ of the mss. he sent out.
Fortunately, he had met the editor at the home of a common friend in Kansas City, Missouri. The
editor did not then know the true name of James Claymore, as he was calling himself at the time. A letter
sent from Lima, Peru, told the editor of ClaymoreтАЩs actual name and identity. It also outlined the danger
that Grandrith, his wife, and several others were in. The next letter came from Dublin, Ireland. The third
had no postmark and was left in the editorтАЩs mailbox between midnight and six a.m. The editor sent his
reply to a man in Stockholm, Sweden, as requested. The ms. of Volume IX was mailed from Western
Samoa.
The editor has Americanized various English terms, changing bonnet into hood, petrol into gas, lorry
into truck, etc. The locations of various places in Kenya and Uganda were purposely made vague by
Grandrith. This was not done to protect the Nine but to protect those foolhardy people who might try to
seek out the Nine or the now-buried gold mines of the valley which Grandrith named Ophir.
In addition, the incident of the landing at Penrith is not quite accurate. Penrith has no airport. The
events after the landing did happen as described, but the airport was created by Grandrith to obscure the
actual event. He wants to protect a friend who set out lights on a meadow so the plane could land there.
Grandrith refuses to change the incident to bring it closer to reality. We can only respect his reasons
without understanding them.
In his last letter, Grandrith says that тАЬalmost nobody, will believe this. Not at this moment, anyway.
But events conceived and brought forth by the Nine will soon convince the world. I hope then that it will
not be too late for the world. Meanwhile, we are all alive and fighting, though doing more hiding than
fighting. And I have added another book to the autobiography.тАЭ

тАФPhilip Jos├й Farmer



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