The Two Faces of January The Two Faces of January The Two Faces of January (1964) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. Its title alludes to the two faces of the Roman god Janus, after whom the month of January was named. Biographer Andrew Wilson, in his 2003 publication "Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith" claims the title is 'appropriate for the janus-faced, flux-like nature of her protagonists'. Chester MacFarland is an alcoholic con artist traveling in Greece with his young wife, Colette. McFarland is wanted by the police back in the U.S. for running a Ponzi scheme. In Athens, a Greek
The Beginnings been the first to use the word "Hun" as a slur for Germans. The poem first appeared in Kipling's 1917 collection "A Diversity of Creatures", where it accompanies the short story "Mary Postgate". The story had originally been published in 1915, but without the poem. An altered version of the poem has been spread online as "The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon". In the altered version, all instances of the word "English" have been replaced with "Saxon". The Beginnings "The Beginnings" is a 1917 poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. The poem is about how the English people, although