The Spire the Novels." "A most remarkable book, as unforeseeable as one foresaw, an entire original... remote from the mainstream, potent, severe, even forbidding." – Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books, 30 April 1964. The Spire The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. In this novel, William Golding utilises stream of consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator. Jocelin, the Dean of the
Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9 Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9 The Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9 is a municipal district in south western Alberta, Canada. Located in Census Division No. 3, its municipal office is located in the Town of Pincher Creek. The Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9 was originally renamed from the "Municipal District of Crowsnest No. 39" to the "Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 39" in 1944. It was renumbered a year later in 1945. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9 recorded a population