So, the following, taken from one of Susanna Clarke's inimitable footnotes, ought to sounds familliar to readers of J. R. R. T.:
"The truth is that the brugh [fairy-mound]
was a hole of interconnecting holes that was
dug into a barrow, very like a rabbit's warren
or badger's set. To paraphrase a writer of fanciful
stories for children, this was not a comfortable
hole, it was not even a dry, bare sandy hole; it
was a nasty, dirty, wet hole.
--THE LADIES OF GRACE ADIEU .176
--John R.
current reading: LIES ACROSS AMERICA by James W. Loewen
current audiobook: John Garth's TOLKIEN'S GREAT WAR
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