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2019/36: Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 08:11 am2019/36: Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Published 1926, the year my mother was born. The eponymous 'Lolly' is actually Laura, but her family prefer to use this diminutive: 'Aunt Lolly' is so reliable, so obliging, so ... dull.
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... the colourless dark hue of the field dazzled before her eyes. She stood in the middle of the field, waiting for an answer to her cry. There was no answer. And yet the silence that had followed it had been so intent, so deliberate, that it was like a pledge. If any listening power inhabited this place; if any grimly favourable power had been evoked by her cry; then surely a compact had been made, and the pledge irrevocably given. [p. 167]
Published 1926, the year my mother was born. The eponymous 'Lolly' is actually Laura, but her family prefer to use this diminutive: 'Aunt Lolly' is so reliable, so obliging, so ... dull.
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