{"id":1131,"date":"2010-11-21T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T09:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombo.ca\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2010-11-22T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T21:24:04","slug":"tears-of-our-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Tears of Our Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tears-straight1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1212\" title=\"tears-straight\" src=\"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tears-straight1-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tears-straight1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tears-straight1-300x439.jpg 300w, https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tears-straight1-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tears-straight1-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tears-straight1.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><strong>Tears of Our Lady<\/strong> is a\u00a0book that resists ready description because it is singular. It attempts to recreate the\u00a0monograph\u00a0called <em>Tears of Our Lady <\/em>which was introduced by the English mystery-story writer <strong>Sax Rohmer<\/strong> into the pages of the five fantasy and action-adventure novels that he wrote in the 1950s. These novels are devoted to the amazing (and absurd) schemes, conspiracies, and adventures of <strong>Sumuru<\/strong>, the beautiful and mysterious <em>femme-fatale<\/em> intent on world domination. (She is a successor of Rohmer&#8217;s earlier and infamous fictional creation, Dr. Fu Manchu.)\u00a0<strong>John Robert Colombo<\/strong>, author and anthologist and long-time connoisseur and collector of Rohmer&#8217;s writings, has contributed an informative essay titled &#8220;The Wisdom of Sumuru.&#8221; He has &#8220;recreated&#8221; the theme if not the text of the fictional\u00a0monograph through quotations from passages of dialogue and speech that appear in the five novels. It is a companion-piece to the same editor\/writer&#8217;s edition of\u00a0<em>The Sumuru Omnibus<\/em>.)\u00a0<strong>Tears of Our Lady<\/strong>\u00a0is a booklet published by The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 5.25&#8243; x 8.5&#8243;, 62 pages. ISBN 987-1-55246-917-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tears of Our Lady is a\u00a0book that resists ready description because it is singular. It attempts to recreate the\u00a0monograph\u00a0called Tears of Our Lady which was introduced by the English mystery-story writer Sax Rohmer into the pages of the five fantasy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/?p=1131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}