Lud-in-the-Mist

by Hope Mirrlees

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Miss Primrose Crabapple,

Endymion Leer

why, then, no one is to blame!”

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rumors of a band of melancholy maidens flitting past to the sound of sad wild ditties.

Pied Piper motif? Question Cf. “Some day I’ll send my piper for you, and you will up and follow him!” p. 29

Endymion Leer

wherever he went he managed to leave the impression that somehow or other Master Nathaniel Chanticleer was to blame for the whole business.

Master Nathaniel,

Ebeneezor Prim

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the innocent timepiece might have been the wicked Mayor’s familiar —

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Master Nathaniel

carminative.

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Facts suddenly seemed to be becoming real.

his secret shadowy fears began to solidify — to find a real focus; and the focus was Ranulph.

I thought Luke was writing to ask to return home? p.

his panic turned into a sort of lethargic nightmare of fatalism,

Dame Marigold,

Prunella

wandering in the Fields of Grammary.

Haha objet d’art

all one’s deeds and passions simplified,

still life — life that neither moves nor suffers, but only grows in silence and slowly matures in secret.

The Silent People!

the secret of still life.

Dream sequence

The tradesmen

Simile extended

And lads

the smithy,

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as soothing as that of a farmyard.

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a double hedge of castellated box,

Haha - no activity, just stupefied unhappiness

Master Nathaniel;

Simile ouch

mooning about the Fields of Grammary.

Hyacinth Quirkscuttle,

Ebeneezor Spike,

Epitaph p. 10

the door of his family chapel being ajar

Cf. Leonardo da Vinci's Tomb Château Royal d'Amboise, Amboise, France The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert (patron saint of hunters, dogs, and archers, credited as the source of ethical hunting behavior). https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/leonardo-da-vincis-tomb

so drugged was he with despair

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