“Can you tell me anything about a writer called LaMotte?” “Isidore LaMotte. Mythologies, 1832. Mythologies indigènes de la Bretagne et de la Grande Bretagne. Also Mythologies françaises. A great scholarly compendium of folklore and legends. Suffused by a kind of fashionable search for the Key to All Mythologies but also with Breton national identity and culture. Ash would almost certainly have read them, but I’ve no recollection of any precise use he made of them.…” “There was a Miss LaMotte.…” “Oh, the daughter. She wrote religious poems, didn’t she? A gloomy little booklet called Last
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