gypsy carnival, which is found to have been a six-month period by the following "morning" Janet's father dies during this time, allowing an element of price-paying and darkness into the story. The ballad (Child 39 A) is reprinted on the final pages. (C+P from the Tam Lin Pages) Ic...
‘Lo!’ he said, ‘this is beyond prayer.’ It was the deep, interfolded warmth, warmth living and penetrable, the woman, the heart of the rose! My mansion is the intricate warm rose, my joy is this blossom! You can see why orthodox Christians would have gone nuts. Now, 100 years ...
After a couple of hugely successful years, they went on hiatus “for a year”, Ronan went solo and one year turned into more – until a hugely successful first reunion tour and then the death of Stephen Gately at the age of just 33. I still remember exactly where I was when I heard ...
One thousand two hundred souls who will never again see a sunrise or smell a rose, never feel their hearts lift at the sound of birdsong. We will also be thinking of the 251 taken hostage, of those who were murdered in cold blood and the 101 whose fate remains unknown. NEVER AGAIN IS...
history, and theory including "A Lifetime with Shakespeare: Notes from an American Director of All 38 Plays" by Paul Barry, "Performing Herself: Autobiography and Fanny Kelly's Dramatic Recollections" by Gilli Bush-Bailey, and "Lady of Burlesque: The Career of Gypsy Rose Lee" by Robert Strom...
The children divide into two teams, the Red Rose and the White Rose, and have "battles." This sounds vaguely like a Paul Berna book; however I read them all a very long time ago and can't remember which plot goes with which title. His most famous book was "The Horse without a ...
This page on planetary nomenclature is fascinating stuff, as far as I’m concerned. Dig down a little deeper, and you’ll find 900 Venusian crater names, from Abigail (the name) and Abington (actress Francis Abington) to Zurka (gypsy first name) and Zbereva (aviator Lidiya Zvereva, d. ...
Amid the dizzying rides, tantalizing games of chance, and fanciful attractions of a state fair, two teenage sweethearts on the cusp of life and love’s pleasures find their way to a shadowy carnival tent brimming with curiosities. There, from the bizarre and enthralling Gypsy Mummy, a ...
Black Thorn, White Rose And whilst we’re on fairy tales, much as I’m not at all a fan of horror, I recently read an engrossing and beautiful novel-length fairy tale by the acknowledged master of horror, Stephen King. I highly recommendThe Eyes of the Dragon. There are a few recent...
and Heathcliff was a gypsy boy her father found in the streets of Liverpool on one of his business trips, and brought home to live with the family. The house mirrors all the brutality and violence of the novel’s plot. In addition to that, Cathy became the ghost that, in the future,...