Lud-in-the-Mist

by Hope Mirrlees

Ebeneezor Prim

the black-wigged apprentice.

Rosie and Lettice

an in-folio.

a white road cuts through the landscape it still gleams white — even when the moon has taken the place of the sun.

“It’s the Law, Ambrose — the homoeopathic antidote that our forefathers discovered to delusion.

Question

Diggory Carp

Christopher Pugwalker,

the great drought.

Haha

Haha

fal-lals.

the best osiers for the purpose were very poisonous.

What if Endymion Leer and Christopher Pugwalker were one and the same?”

“The original meaning of Fairie is supposed to be delusion.

the Law being man’s substitute for fairy fruit?

man can’t live without delusion, so he creates for himself another form of delusion

the world-in-law, subject to no other law but the will of man, where man juggles with fac...

“Beyond the borders of the world-in-law,” continued Master Nathaniel, “that is to say, the world as we choose for our convenience that it should appear, there is delusion — or reality.

“barratine tuftaffity”

Master Nathaniel’s

Dame Polly Pyepowders,

Mistress Ivy Peppercorn,

Mothgreen,

To help dead men to find their tongues is one of the chief uses of the Law.”

He was thoroughly enjoying himself, and seemed actually to have become the shrewd, honest, and somewhat bloodthirsty old fellow he had created.

And he had a dog, and a canary, and an old housekeeper.

Haha

Simile

How comfortable were other men’s shoes!

Pugwalker

Endymion Leer?”

Who can say that the dead are not grateful for the loving thoughts of the living, and that they do not rest more quietly in their graves when they have been avenged?

Clementine),

And one of poor father’s funny little ways was to like the scum of jam or jelly,

Robin,

Simile

Polly

I’ve never mentioned this to a soul except my poor Peppercorn

my father was a queer man in that way — too proud to sit where he wasn’t wanted, even in his own kitchen.

Ginger,

Simile vivid

not one to hoard up bitterness any more than he would hoard up money;

Simile

Diggory came out of gaol he found that his wife and children had died of starvation.

Guilt’s a funny thing — like a smell, and one often doesn’t quite know where it comes from.

I think Diggory’s nose was not mistaken when it smelt out guilt, but it led him to the wrong clue.

“The Law dearly loves something it can touch

Uh-oh

she has brought up his little girl, for her mother died when she was born.

Question - who is that?

But I’ve never seen the lass,