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"She says his treatment and the lack of justice has haunted her ever since she wrote the 1977 story."

" 'It must be hard to have a faith that would remove mountains, and then find it does not remove them.'
'It did not remove anything.'
'You and I must be classed as mountains, Mother.' "

--@ivycomptonburnett.bsky.social

"Writing this story has been like standing inside a kaleidoscope." Also: "The diary was written in a polyglot language, Cosette’s idiosyncratic combination of the four or five languages in which she was fluent. It was totally indecipherable."

"And Grendel forsooth the grim guest was hight,
The mighty mark-strider, the holder of moorland,
The fen and the fastness. The stead of the fifel
That wight all unhappy a while of time warded,
Sithence that the Shaper him had for-written."

--William Morris's Beowulf (1895)

"Grendel this monster grim was called,
march-riever mighty, in moorland living,
in fen and fastness; fief of the giants
the hapless wight a while had kept
since the Creator his exile doomed."

--Francis Barton Gummere's Beowulf via

"Though this is her first book, Faust-Newton has listed no less than five other titles "In immediate, uniform-with-this-volume, preparation" which were to be a part of the "Around the World" series."