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A Consolatory Tale

The title is taken from Isak Dinesen— See the previous post, which posed the question, "Stylist or fraud?" Stylist and  fraud— The stylist:   Gerard Manley Hopkins, Society of Jesus The fraud…

The Question

Maya Alexandri on September 7, 2009— … Blixen herself may have cut closer to the truth in her final story in Winter's Tales , "A Consolatory Tale" [1942]. In it,…

Monday September 7, 2009

Magic Boxes "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas– only I don't exactly know what they are!…. Let's have a look at the garden first!" —…