The Spire on his back whereas the latter is the will of God. His narcissism is belied by these failing structures he reinterprets to maintain his worldview. "The Spire" is subject to critical analysis by Steve Eddy in the York Notes Advanced series and reviews by Frank Kermode and David Skilton are included in "William Golding: Novels 1954–1967." Don Crompton, in "A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels," analyses the novel and relates it to its pagan and mythical elements. More recently, Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor cover all of William Golding's novels in "William Golding: A Critical Study of
HMS Pincher (1910) at which he was sentenced to be reprimanded for steering an unsafe course. HMS Pincher (1910) HMS "Pincher" was a coal-fired destroyer of the Royal Navy built by William Denny and Brothers and launched on 15 March 1910. "Pincher" spent the early part of the First World War in a local defence flotilla operating out of Portsmouth, but by June 1915 had joined the 5th Destroyer Flotilla in the Aegean Sea, operating with them until December 1917. In January 1918, she was moved to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, operating for a half year with the Northern Division of the Coast