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This nostalgia for what was still there seemed to find a voice in the cry of the cock,
as happening now, all round one; and which, simultaneously, mourns them as things vanished centuries ago.
to lie awake at night in his warm feather bed, listening to the breathing of his wife and the soughing of the trees, would become, from this attitude, an exquisite pleasure.
“How pleasant this is!
enhancing thus his present well-being by imagining some unpleasant adventure now safe behind him.
taking a pride in knowing his way about his native town.
Though he did not realize it, he was masquerading to himself as a stranger in Lud-in-the-Mist
one always takes a pride in knowing one’s way about a strange town.
this secret fear
unaccountable irascibility,
craving for other men’s shoes
Haha - Walk in their footsteps? Weird. Question
Haha
Simile lovely
He even coveted dead men’s shoes,
Cf. The view of downtown Pittsburgh from the St. John's Lutheran Cemetery in Spring Hill:
https://www.discovertheburgh.com/lesser-known-views-of-pittsburgh/
https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=The%20view%20of%20downtown%20Pittsburgh%20from%20the%20St.%20John%27s%20Lutheran%20Cemetery%20in%20Spring%20Hill%3A
EBENEEZOR SPIKE
How willingly would he have changed places with that old baker!
Haha
Dorimare
Lud-in-the-Mist
Cf. The view of downtown Pittsburgh from the St. John's Lutheran Cemetery in Spring Hill:
https://www.discovertheburgh.com/lesser-known-views-of-pittsburgh/
The Dawl
The Dapple,
which had its source in Fairyland
the Debatable...
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‘The Dapple flows into the Dawl.’ It had come to be employed when one wanted to show the inadvisability of despising the services of humble agents;
Haha hmmm ch. 30 p. 209
their market basket or ivory markers were carried by little indigo pages in crimson turbans from the Cinnamon Isles,
pigmy peddlers from the far North hawked amber through the streets.
a town of merchants, and all the power and nearly all the wealth of the coun...
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trade was seriously hampered by a ruler unchecked by a constitution, and by a ruthless, privileged class.
these things were damming the Dawl.
Duke Aubrey,
possessed by a laughing demon of destructiveness.
Hah droit du siegneur
seasoned by a slightly sinister humor.
Double simile
During those three days of bloodshed all the priests had vanished also.
Haha good
offerings of fairy fruit
a taboo was placed on all things fairy.
the eating of fairy fruit had been the chief cause of the degeneracy of the Dukes.
the tragic sense of life vanished from poetry and art.
to the minds of the Dorimarites, fairy things had always spelled delusion.
opobalsamum
if an honest, clear-eyed mortal gazed on these things long enough,
The fairies themselves, tradition taught,
The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead.
the “Silent People”;
the Mil...
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who liked both virtues and commodities to be solid,
