Lud-in-the-Mist

by Hope Mirrlees

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the violent effort that he had evidently to make in order to react in the least to his surroundings.

Prunella),

Mistress Hempen.

the comic nursery stories of Dorimare

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Haha - like the top cop boards at Castleman street.

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“All the Vigils, on the other hand, have the hides of buffaloes.”

Marigold’s family? Question

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the staleness, was taken out of it all.

meet a Moongrass cheese”

that blending of the perfume of meadows with the cleanly stench of the byre.

Ch. 2 p. 14

parakeets, presumably? Question

Haha - “Children should be seen and not heard.” And (next), “Speak when you are spoken to.”

as well, he had a share in a common cellar, owned jointly by all the families of the ruling class — a cellar of old, mellow jokes that, unlike bottles of wine, never ran dry.

in these old jokes the accumulated irritation that inevitably results from intimacy evaporated and turned to sweetness,

like the juice of the grape they promoted friendship and cordiality

a sort of totem, making at once for unity ...

Dame Marigold

a blackish canary.”

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his power of seeing things as he wanted them to be

Like a certain entertainer politician we’re dealing with these days. TRUMP. Or Sen James Inhofe, who while in the Sen, Environment Committee, claimed scientists were saying we were “actually in a cold period,” and most famously brought a snowball into the Senate chamber to show that in global warming was a hoax because” it still gets cold.

Master Ambrose Honeysuckle

Dame Jessamine,

Master Polydore Vigil,

Haha - c. 1470 – 18 April 1555, widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, wrote the Anglica Historia (drafted by 1513; printed in 1534), an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the "Father of English History".

Dame Dreamsweet,

Mat Pyep...

Peregrine ...

Goceline ...

Hyacinth Bald...

The anonymous antiquary

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“he shall not kill the moon … he shall not, I say. If he does, all the flowers will wither in Fairyland.”

they aroused, as well, some of the superstitious terror caused by the violation of a taboo.

there was a gleam of delicate, humorous contempt in her heavily-lidded eyes.

Luddite ˈlʌdʌɪt noun a person opposed to new technology or ways of working. derogatory a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16).

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By the Harvest of Souls!”

Question

“I’m not going into the question of whether they’re true or not. All I know is that they’re not the things talked about by ladies and gentlemen.

Fields of Grammary.

surprise, triumph, tenderness, alarm.

turning into a mere organ of suffering without thought and without emotions;