the curious medievalism of redwall

“What want you here, young beast, young beast,
What want you here at my feast, my feast?”

“O stripedog, great guardian, some food for us all, 
For we are good young ones who live at Redwall!”

as december is thus upon us, I now begin the second year of what I believe I can officially call a ‘tradition’, started just last year – listening to all of Brian Jacques’s Redwall series in chronological order. 

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of william morris, julio cortázar, and dragons

for the past year I’ve been reading Fiona MacCarthy‘s biography of William Morris (a low and slow reading, if you will) and now, through a gradual accumulation of coincidences, my head is full of dragons.

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