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Colonel the Hon. George Hysteron-Proteron is a fictional character created by author J. K. Stanford, He is introduced as a British soldier, sporting gun, and Lord of the manor of Five Mile Wallop, Cambridgeshire. He has been described as "a comic figure of sporting literature" and a "fanatical grouse shot".〔Clover, Charles, ''(Why old soldier aims best shot at hunt Bill )'' dated 19 June 2001, from telegraph.co.uk〕 In his London home, the Qu'hais' Club, he was known as The Old Grouse-Cock.〔Stanford, J. K., ''The Twelfth and After'' (ISBN 9780948253003), p. 11〕 ==Origin and creation== Hysteron-Proteron's creator J. K. Stanford wrote in 1964 that "George... owed his origin to a face in the East India Club... On one occasion at breakfast he sent for the waiter and said, in my hearing, 'Didn't I order mutton cutlets ''with blood''? There's no blood in these! Take them away!' "〔''Authors Note'' prefacing ''The Twelfth and After'', pp. 7-8〕 The character first appeared in Stanford's first book, ''The Twelfth'' (1944), which was revised in 1964 as ''The Twelfth and After: being the life and death of George Hysteron-Proteron''. The original book, ''The Twelfth'', was written between 1942 and 1943 in the North African desert, while the author was serving with the British Eighth Army between El Alamein and Gabès.〔〔(The Twelfth and After: Being the Life and Death of George Hysteron-Proteron ) at biggerbooks.com, accessed 19 November 2008〕 A member of Boodle's wrote after receiving the book as a Christmas present in 1944: "I see the author mentions Boodle's. I don't know if he is a member here but there are six George Proterons sitting round me in the smoking-room at the moment."〔 The character's surname clearly originates in the term hysteron proteron, a rhetorical device. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Hysteron-Proteron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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