Duke Humfrey’s Library: “Once she is seated there, she feels the first infusions of a familiar tranquillity, a renewed sense of the order and importance of intangible things. It is a feeling that often overtakes her in a great calming wave as she adjusts to the mood of this hallowed literary space.”
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“A plaque tells the story of the ruined stone walls and pillars that lie scattered across the valley floor, the remains of the medieval Cwmhir Abbey. The simple tranquillity of this place, the magnificence of its isolation, commended it to the wandering Cistercian monks who first came here in the twelfth century.”
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“As he nurses his pint in a quiet corner of the Smoking Dog pub on Malmesbury High Street, turning distractedly through the pages of his unfinished manuscript, Donald Gladstone feels the first stirrings of a familiar dissatisfaction.” p. 1 [Courtesy of Blomerus Calitz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blomeruscalitz/2915728030/sizes/o/in/photostream/]
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Donald’s “antique Morris Traveller, dark green with a rear section framed in honey-coloured wood.” p. 30
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Modern archaeology has proven Geoffrey of Monmouth’s claim that Merlin transported standing stones from the far west to Salisbury Plain to be at least partially grounded in truth, the older Stonehenge bluestones having almost certainly been quarried in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire. p. 109 [Courtesy of Antony Scott: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13684395@N00/1497188363]
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“The door opens to a spacious interior flooded with light from a pair of tall windows that look out on a startlingly green vista of the Fellows’ Garden of Exeter College.” p. 81 [Courtesy of Mark Vanstone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/72920417@N03/9177779552]
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“Written history has left only the faintest of clues as to the original purpose of Stonehenge. According to the ancient Greek historian Hecataeus, a far northern people known as the Hyperboreans occupied a large island in the ocean facing the country of the Celts. There, in a magni6cent circular temple, they worshipped the sun god.” p. 108
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