Who is Scobie? Revisited

In honor of the 9th birthday of this blog, here's the text of my third post ever, explaining the origin of the blog's name.

Joshua Scobie is a character from Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. From the Literary Encyclopedia:

"Perhaps most colourful of all is aging policeman Scobie, whose ultimately fatal “tendencies” involve dressing up as a woman during the full moon and trolling for British sailors on shore leave. . . In other developments, Scobie is kicked to death by outraged British sailors, but is elevated to sainthood by his Muslim neighbors; his bathtub, in which he was wont to prepare a lethal “Mock Whisky”, becomes a holy relic."

For more scintillating plot twists along those same lines: http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10820

Scobie was also our cat for awhile.