Lud-in-the-Mist

by Hope Mirrlees

the new rulers were creating their own form of delusion, for it was they who founded in Dorimare the science of jurisprudence,

Haha

Josiah Chanticleer

a curious parallel between fairy things and the law.

substituted law for fairy fruit.

the law was given freely to rich an...

whereas fairy magic and delusion were for the cozening and robbing of man, the magic of the law was to his intention and for his welfare.

a Winckelmann,

poncifs

a few years before the opening of this story,

tradition taught

Tradition also taught

high-flown oaths

scouted

the antiquary,

fairy fruit

indigo sailors and pigmy Norsemen.

some twenty years before the opening of this story,

vetches

tarn

through the drought the waters of the Dapple remained unimpaired;

an ever-increasing number of people succumbed to the vice of fairy fruit-eating

the more they ate the more they wanted,

the ruling class of Dorimare

Haha

wealth had ceased to be a delicate, exotic blossom. It had become naturalized in Dorimare,

Hence sprang leisure, that fissure in the solid masonry of works and days

fantastic, but homely.

they knew but little and cared still less about the common people for whom they legislated.

ivy and squills.

But of Fairyland and its inhabitants the country people knew no more than did the merchants of Lud-in-the-Mist.

the Debatable Hills,

the Elfin M...

every kind of danger, both physic...

the trees’ winter foliage of white sky or amethyst grey dusk

a sort of a visual bang.

we

Who is “we”? First appearance? Narrator. Question

we

There is nothing so dumb as a tree in full leaf.

in the spring of his fiftieth year

Nathaniel Cha...

Ran...

twelve yea...

it was for him to see that both justice and the country’s revenues were properly administered;

Haha

unconscious of the undercurrents in his home.

But children are apt, all the world over, to have nasty little minds;

Haha

it’s the thing that has happened to her!”

his tutor

Dame Marigold

the good old family doctor,