#mistress masham's repose

[princess-ibri]

Disney was going to adapt another TH White novel called Mistress Masham's Repose where a girl escape an orphanage and found Lilliputians. They cancelled it because they don’t want it to flop and they found its plot similar to The Rescuers. So it exist in the DisneyVerse? There is concept art:

I've heard of this before yeah! I don't know if it would exist in my DisneyVerse, I'd like to find the original book somewhere and read it so I can get a better feel for the plot before I decide. But the concept art does look fun!

[very-grownup]

She got hold of him by one leg, but Maria charged at the same instant and bit another finger till she felt the flesh turn on the bone.

Mistress Masham’s Repose, T.H. White

[gtbutterfly]

Update on the really old GT book I've been reading,

For some reason, it keeps implying that a tiny being in a giants hands is "silly" and "babyish" and "humiliating" and I don't know if I should be offended or feel called out.

[thenewnio]

Miss Masham’s Repose (A sequel to the Fleischer brothers’ Gulliver’s Travels)

10-year-old Maria moves to the New England estate of Malplaquet Hall with her foster mother, Mrs. Noakes. Her neighbors are the retired Professor Pittman, local boy Marc Gordon, the snobbish Veronica Brown and the banker Zeke Hatter. The bored, friendless Maria tries to make herself useful through chores, but repeatedly messes up. Later, she investigates Miss Masham’s Repose, a forgotten island in a nearby lake called the Quincunx. While exploring, Maria gets a glimpse of Gibby, a miniature girl, who flees upon seeing the “giant”. Gibby tries to tell Lala, the president of Miss Masham’s Repose, but Lala, certain that their society may never be discovered by the “big folk”, tries to reassure her. Meanwhile, Maria is told by Pittman that she needs proof of the little people’s existence. The next day, she returns to the island, this time with a Polaroid camera. Upon seeing Maria again, Gibby attempts to scare her off the island, only to fall into Maria’s backpack and be knocked unconscious. Having had no apparent success, Maria returns to Malplaquet Hall. In Maria’s room, Gibby awakens and is discovered by Maria, who takes her to Pittman as living proof. As Gibby tries to escape, she is attacked by the cat Humphrey, but Maria saves her. As Maria and Gibby argue, Pittman consults the historical records of Miss Masham’s Repose and comes across the journal of Captain John Biddel, the rescuer of Lemuel Gulliver and former owner of Malplaquet Hall, who found a miniature sailing ship carrying pioneers from the islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu, bringing them to live on Miss Masham’s Repose in safety. Pittman convinces Maria to return Gibby to the island, where the inhabitants are at first wary of the “giant” girl’s presence. However, Maria manages to convince them of her good will by giving them items taken from her old dollhouse. In return they give Maria gifts of gold coins as well. As Maria continues to visit Miss Masham’s Repose, Veronica becomes suspicious upon seeing the coins. After failing to bribe Maria into divulging where she got them, she persuades Mrs. Noakes into revealing the girl’s visits to Miss Masham’s Repose. Seeking the “treasure”, Veronica and Hatter trick Marc into distracting Maria while they head to the island before her. Upon hearing Marc mention the two and realizing what is happening, Maria hurries with him to Miss Masham’s Repose, but Veronica and Hatter have already kidnapped Gibby. They also destroy the children’s boat, stranding them on the island, but two residents of Miss Masham’s Repose, twins Snake and Snipe, reveal their earlier find of the ship which their ancestors used, which they and the children fix up to sail back to the mainland. Meanwhile, Veronica and Hatter plan to exploit the "miniatures” for profit, while Gibby manages to escape from the jar imprisoning her, meeting up with the twins and informing Pittman. Maria and Marc are caught by Veronica and Hatter, who lock them in the basement, but Gibby and the twins find and release them. Together, they ambush Veronica and Hatter, but are overpowered. Just as the antagonists are about to recapture Gibby and the twins, Lala arrives with an army of little people who subdue them, delivering a warning to them on behalf of their people. They disappear as Pittman arrives with the police. Veronica and Hatter are arrested for kidnapping and wrongful imprisonment, and the children and Pittman introduce Mrs. Noakes to the inhabitants of Miss Masham’s Repose. They help the little people clean up the island, promising to protect them and keep their society a secret.

[fictionadventurer]

Details:

1940s Hans Christian Andersen shorts: Intended as animated segments within a live-action film about the author's life, these would have adapted The Little Mermaid, The Fir Tree, Through the Picture Frame, The Emperor's Nightingale, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. (Yes, I know we got adaptations of several of these, but I still want to share the concept art for old versions).

Gremlins: A film they worked on a lot during WWII but couldn't crack the story (or find money to make it)

Don Quixote: They tried to adapt the story in various ways in the '40s, '50s, and '00s, which is too long to get into here, but it led to some interesting concept art.

Chanticleer: A story about an arrogant rooster who thought his crow made the sun rise, and used this to rule over the other farmyard animals. Reynard the Fox was a villain who tried to take advantage of the discontent in the farm animals to take over as their leader (with plans to eat them), which leads to Chanticleer saving them and learning humility. Work started on it in the 1940s, and it was so close to being made in the 1960s, but they decided to go with The Sword in the Stone instead. Some of the animators loved it, though, and some of the character concepts were later adapted into Robin Hood.

Catfish Bend: I haven't found much about the story beyond "talking animals in the South", but the concept art intrigues me. It would have been released in 1981, but after it was shelved, some of the concepts went on to inspire The Rescuers.

Mistress Masham's Repose: An adaptation of T.H. White's novel, pitched in the late 1980s

Fraidy Cat: 2009 film about a pampered housecat named Oscar who is falsely accused of kidnapping another pet and has to team up with a cockatoo and try to find the real culprit to clear his name. Shelved because they figured kids and general audiences wouldn't understand the Hitchcock references (which seems like a terrible reason, but alas).

King of the Elves: Announced in 2009, it was a 3D animated film scheduled for 2012, before being shelved in 2016. Adapted from a Philip K. Dick story, it was about an ordinary man who saves some elves from a troll and (apparently reluctantly) gets declared their king.

Gigantic: A retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk set during the Spanish exploration, it involves Jack meeting an 11-year-old female giant who treats him like a doll, and eventually fighting much larger Storm Giants. Would have had songs written by the team from Frozen and was set to be released in 2018, then moved to 2020 before being cancelled because apparently they couldn't figure out the story.

[the-forest-library]

How many of the books mentioned in Robin McKinley's A Knot in the Grain have you read?

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

*reblog for science*

[anisethefiaadmin]

Chapter 4 of Mistress Masham’s Repose is UP! A cookie from chapter 4:

“What is it, Father?” he asked, taking a deep breath, assuming his most erect posture. 

“News that I am not happy to hear,” Lucius replied. 

How could that possibly lead to anything good? Unless he means that Eltanin has refused to help him, Rastaban is avoiding the situation, and… and perhaps he needs me. But his father’s next words removed all doubt

“You have been seen with Ginny Weasley,” said Lucius. “At Hogwarts.” 

Draco licked his suddenly dry lips. “Ginny Weasley?”

“Yes, Ginny Weasley,” said Lucius. “Pray do not oblige me to repeat myself again. You met privately at Hogwarts this past year, more than once. What do you have to say to this?”

[quordleona03]

Classic Fantasy in English

250 years, 69 books, 48 writers

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - 1726

Fairy Tales Told for Children - Hans Christian Andersen - 1835-1863 tr. Mrs. H. B. Paull 1867-1872

The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley - 1863

Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - 1865/1871

Mopsa The Fairy - Jean Ingelow - 1869

At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald - 1871

The Princess and the Goblin/The Princess and Curdie - George MacDonald - 1872/1883

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - R. L. Stevenson - 1886

The Happy Prince and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde - 1888

News from Nowhere - William Morris - 1890

The Book of Dragons - E. Nesbit - 1901

The Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling - 19021

Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie - 1902-1911

The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit - 1907

Puck of Pook's Hill/Rewards and Fairies - Rudyard Kipling - 1906/1910

Lud in the Mist - Hope Mirrlees - 1926

The Midnight Folk - John Masefield - 1927

Dr. Dolittle in the Moon - Hugh Lofting - 1928

Patapoufs et Filifers / Fattypuffs and Thinifers - André Maurois - 1930/tr. Rosemary Benet 1940

The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas - Erich Kästner - 1931, tr. Cyrus Brooks 1934

Jirel of Joiry - C. L. Moore - 1934-1939

The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger - Noel Langley - 1937

My Friend Mr Leakey - J. B. S. Haldane - 1937

The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien - 1937-1955

Le Petit Prince / The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 tr Katherine Woods

The Wind on the Moon - Eric Linklater - 1944

Mistress Masham's Repose - T.H. White - 1946

The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge - 1946

Trollkarlens Hatt / Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson - 1948 tr. Elizabeth Portch 1950

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - 1949

Seven Days in New Crete - Robert Graves - 1949

The Borrowers / Afield / Afloat / Aloft / Avenged - Mary Norton - 1952/1955/1959/1961/1982

All You've Ever Wanted / More Than You Bargained For - Joan Aiken - 1953/1955

To the Chapel Perilous - Naomi Mitchison - 1955

Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce - 1958

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis - 1950

The 13 Clocks - James Thurber - 1950

Round the Bend - Neville Shute - 1951

The Armourer's House - Rosemary Sutcliff - 1951

The Once and Future King - T. H. White - 1938-1958

Candy Floss / Impunity Jane / Miss Happiness and Miss Flower - Rumer Godden 1954 / 1960 / 1961

Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliff - 1963

Book of Heroes - William Mayne - 1966

Tree and Leaf\Smith of Wootton Major - J. R. R. Tolkien - 1945-1967

The Crystal Cave / The Hollow Hills / The Last Enchantment / The Wicked Day - Mary Stewart 1970-1983

Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey - 1968

A Wizard of Earthsea / The Tombs of Atuan / The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. Le Guin - 1968/1971/1972

Red Moon and Black Mountain - Joy Chant - 1970

Tom Ass or The Second Gift - Ann Lawrence - 1972

The Dark Is Rising/Greenwitch/The Grey King - Susan Cooper - 1973 / 1974 / 1975

[nostalgicyorkshiregirl]

some recommendations from my 2023 book list

paris des merveilles series, pierre pevel (et al)

a perennial recommendation since i finally finished the trilogy this year. (mid-?)fantasy set in belle epoque france with flying cats and metro trains to fairy kingdoms. the short stories (by up-and-coming authors) are of varying quality but enjoyable. as far as i know not translated into english yet unfortunately

mistress masham's repose, t.h. white

a book i wish i'd read when i actually got it as a child. in which a young girl discovers a colony of lilliputians living in her garden and enlists their help defeating her evil governess... the humour is just top notch honestly

is that a fish in your ear?, david bellos

an extremely accessible and entertaining introduction to translation. i don't know how else to recommend it but it is really really good... if you have any interest whatsoever in language, translation and/or social history. or if you want to gain an interest in them idk

drachenreiter series, cornelia funke

another book i wish i'd known about as a child... a very wholesome and outlandishly imaginative sort of children's fantasy series featuring characters with wild backstories who are nonetheless almost too adorable. and fantasy david attenborough for some reason

the body, bill bryson

just a superlative popular science book on the bizarrities of the physical human condition. if i remember correctly it's one of the books i sat down and just inhaled. can't remember any of the facts from it except that the author fanny burney had her breast ripped off by a metal claw

sherlock holmes et le mystère du haut-koenigsbourg, jacques fortier

a book i'm hesitant to recommend because it might only have appeal if you've been to the château du haut-koenigsbourg. and because it's only available in french. but if you fulfil the conditions then it's a fun trip to early 1900s alsace with political mysteries, deerstalkers and the most unconvincing cover story you've ever seen

[eukariote]

2022 recap! (I made it through this year???) Thank you @ttoshaaa for tagging me!! <3

Top 3 films:

A Passage to India (1984) dir. David Lean — my favorite film. I even wrote an essay about it for my English class last year! It's such an amazing piece of art: the crisp editing, the symbolism, the way Lean managed to translate the book for the screen. 11/10

The Age of Innocence (1993) dir. Martin Scorsese — I've really turned into a bit of a pretentious film bro, haven't I? Oops. Anyway, The Age of Innocence, like Passage, is based on a classic 20th century novel. The sets and costumes are of course amazing but what really stuck with me was the directing (which makes sense; it's Marty, after all). 10/10

The Leopard (1963) dir. Luchino Visconti — another novel adaptation (I'm noticing a theme here...), this one based on a story about a family of fading aristocrats set during the Italian Risorgimento. I'd actually like to rewatch this one, because I think there are a lot of layers to it that weren't apparent to me the first time around (and also because Visconti allegedly made his films to be watched "two, three times"). 10/10

Honorable mention for David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia... but I don't think I have to describe that one; its reputation proceeds it :)

Top 3 books:

Not even sure I read three books this year.

Mistress Masham's Repose by T. H. White — this was a reread, but it proved just as delightful as the first time. It's a satire of Gulliver's Travels (and it's much better than the original...). 10/10

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton — I actually have a lot of issues with Wharton's writing, but compared to the other books I read this year, it's pretty solid. The movie is better, though. Sorry. 8/10

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery — another reread. I had forgotten just how lovely this book is. Everyone should read this. 11/10

Honorable mention for Anna Karenina, which I've been reading since, um, 2020. I'm currently reading Maurice and making despicably slow progress, because I keep getting distracted by my research. Oops.

Top 3 biggest improvements:

I rewrote my novel. I don't talk about this a lot on here (or at least I try not to), but it's something I'm really proud of, and it took a ton of fortitude to learn to accept the criticisms I'd received. And now the second draft, even in its (very) unfinished state, is so much better than the first.

I got into college!!!! Somehow!!!

I made my first film! (And I also did a ton of video editing and just hit 1k on YouTube, which I know is relatively nothing, but it's super exciting to me nonetheless!)

Top 3 resolutions:

Finish my novel :')

Make another film

Take better care of my health

Favorite song:

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor. Yes, really. Honorable mention for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor.

Favorite quote:

From a poem by Frank Bidart. Honorable mention to this quote from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster that's been my bio on Discord for... gosh, over a year now:

It isn't possible to love and part. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

This was so fun! It's hard to believe that I made it through this year (well, almost) in one piece.

Tagging @addamii @boudicca @loonful @currentlycryingaboutlancelot and @nizynskis <3

[myravingsanity]

"A Sort of Melancholy": Some Notes on The Witch in the Wood

Kat’s T.H. White shelf, including: The Witch in the Wood, The Once and Future King, The Book of Merlyn, The Book of Beasts, England Have My Bones, Letters to a Friend, and Mistress Masham’s Repose. “The land of Lothian and Orkney lies in the northern latitudes. It is a country of bog and mountain, where the wind whistles all day, and at night the turf fires glow with small flames in a kind of…

[very-grownup]

Best Books of 2022

Best "I think you wrote Lois McMaster Bujold fanfic and I respect that" Novel: WINTER'S ORBIT.

Best "Oh shit THAT'S how foot binding works?!" Novel: IRON WIDOW.

Best Whale Ranking Novel: MOBY DICK.

Best Novel About Sperm: MOBY DICK.

Best Novel About a Cannibal: MOBY DICK.

Best Novel About Forced Self-Cannibalism: THE GRANDMASTER OF DEMONIC CULTIVATION.

Best Novel Recommended By A 10-Year-Old: THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON.

Best Re-read of a Novel First Read as a 10-Year-Old: I WANT TO GO HOME!

Best End of the World Novel: THE LAST POLICEMAN.

Best Lesbian Romance Novel: HOW TO FIND A PRINCESS.

Best Romantic Accounting Novel: THE RUIN OF A RAKE.

Best Romance Novel With a Disaster Bi Lead: CHEF'S KISS.

Best Romance Novel Where the Protagonist Doesn't Know It's Romance: THE SCUM VILLAIN'S SELF-SAVING SYSTEM.

Best Fantasy Trilogy First Novel: THE STARDUST THIEF.

Best Fantasy-ish Trilogy: SON OF A TRICKSTER, TRICKSTER DRIFT, and RETURN OF THE TRICKSTER.

Best Fantasy Standalone Novel: THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER.

Best Use of Ringo Starr: THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION.

Best Book You Read In High School But I Didn't: THE GREAT GATSBY.

Best Unionization Novel: SILK AND INSIGHT.

Best Story of a Complicated Man: THE ODYSSEY.

Best Short Story Collection Containing a Cake Recipe: MOIRA'S PEN.

Best Meta-non-fictional Fictional Review Collection: A Perfect Vaccuum.

Best Book By Someone Who Used To Live Nextdoor: HALFBREED.

Best Book Adapted Into An Orson Welles Film: THE TRIAL.

Best Use Of Dick Jokes: IF THIS BOOK EXISTS, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG UNIVERSE.

Best Rotting Nightmare Novella: NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH.

The full list of competitors below.

Mister Impossible

Whispers Under Ground

The Serpent's Secret

Sabriel

Game of Stars

Lirael

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

Abhorsen

A Snake Falls to Earth

Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories

Winter's Orbit

The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of his Finest Short Fiction

Iron Widow

Tar Baby

Moby Dick

The Marrow Thieves

Popular Hits of the Showa Era

Heaven Official's Blessing (volume 2)

The Prince and the Puppet Thief

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

The Door Into Summer

Spoiler Alert

The Great Gatsby

Wicked As You Wish

Halfbreed

Never Let Me Go

Can't Escape Love

In the Miso Soup

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

The Björkan Sagas

Artificial Condition

Starship Troopers

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (volume 2)

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

The Beautiful Ones

Every Living Thing

A Prince on Paper

Broken Homes

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (volume 2)

The Last Policeman

Split Tooth

Lost in the Never Woods

The Three-Body Problem

Flip the Script

Bitter Gold Hearts

It All Comes Back to You

Mistress Masham's Repose

How to Find a Princess

I Want to go Home!

Woman Running in the Mountains

The Little Warrior (Jill the Reckless)

Son of a Trickster

The Einstein Intersection

Captive Prince

The Trial

Trickster Drift

Six German Romantic Tales

Return of the Trickster

If Beale Street Could Talk

Heaven Official's Blessing (volume 3)

Japanese Tales

Akata Warrior

Foxglove Summer

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (volume 3)

The Loophole

The Ruin of a Rake

Complicity

The Stardust Thief

The Hanging Tree

Beauty and the Besharam

Some Do Not ...

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (volume 3)

The Joining of Dingo Radish

Prince's Gambit

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Chef's Kiss

Monkey Beach

The Hourglass Throne

She Who Became the Sun

The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders

Heaven Official's Blessing (volume 4)

The Sunbearer Trials

The Toynbee Convector

Kings Rising

The Odyssey

Moira's Pen

Revenge

The Changeling

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (volume 4)

If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

The Wolf and the Woodsman

The Husky and his White Cat Shizun (volume 1)

A Perfect Vacuum

It Takes Two to Tumble

Silk and Insight

In Deeper Waters

Nothing but Blackened Teeth

I Will Fear No Evil

[readingdiary]

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NOTES 16/3/24 - MISTRESS MASHAM’S REPOSE - T.H. WHITE

*****

[its-suanneschafer-author]

BOOK REVIEW: An oldie but goodie: #MistressMashamsRepose by #THWhite. A lovely story with good ethics and humor for younger YA readers. 

[quoteoftheweekblog]

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18/3/24 - T.H. WHITE

'She had dark hair in two pig-tails, and brown eyes ... ' (White, 2014, p.1).

REFERENCE

White, T. H. (2014 [1946] ) 'Mistress Masham's Repose'. London: Vintage.

*****

I HAVE FAIR (GREY) HAIR AND BLUE EYES

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AND AM RECOVERING FROM SEBORRHOEIC DERMATITIS

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TO MY FRIEND FOR GIVING ME THIS BOOK BIRTHDAY 2024

AND FOR TELLING ME THAT I LOOK LIKE

THE WITCH OF ENDOR

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BOTH OF WHICH REALLY CHEERED ME UP

AND THANKS AGAIN

XXXX

PLUS

TO MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY FOR THEIR GOOD WISHES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY

ALL OF WHICH REALLY CHEERED ME UP

AND THANKS AGAIN

XXXX

DURING

DIRE TIMES

*****

SEE ALSO

‘ … in the golden sunrise … ‘ (White, 2014, p.299).

…

NOT EXACTLY

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THE SUN ROSE TODAY IN BASINGSTOKE AT 06.10

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‘The sun was setting a blaze of scarlet … ‘ (White, 2014, p.300).

…

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NOT EXACTLY

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AND SET AT 18.15

ON WEDNESDAY’S VERNAL EQUINOX THE SUN WILL RISE AT 06.06 AND WILL SET AT 18.19

*****

ALL SEASONS

*****

FOR MY HUSBAND

WHO WOULD HAVE ENJOYED THIS ONE

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XXXX

LOOKING GOOD

*****

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***** QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2024

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11 EPIC YEARS

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

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12/6/23

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[dancing-crow]

Mistress Masham's Repose - by T. H. White- a book I thought I hallucinated because I read it when down with a fever, until I found another copy in my 20s. I thought I'd get more talking animals, instead this image of a folly on an island in a pond has lived rent free in my head for YEARS!!!