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Post by Knygathin on Jul 15, 2020 3:27:56 GMT
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jul 15, 2020 6:19:28 GMT
I agree - it looks like some sort of mausoleum. I remain unconvinced. That looks more like a wooden door with windows to me.
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Post by Knygathin on Jul 15, 2020 8:44:14 GMT
That is a metal grille door. It is a tomb all right. Possibly. Still, if so, I think the grille is placed too sparsely to prevent an oiled thief from slipping in.
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Post by Knygathin on Jul 15, 2020 8:51:13 GMT
I looked at a higher resolution picture. There seems to be cloth hanging on the inside of the door, and even a doormat on the floor. A tomb refurbished for the living?
I will hazard a guess: The back kitchen entrance of Dunsany Castle.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 15, 2020 10:04:39 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Jul 15, 2020 13:08:03 GMT
Thanks for that link, Dr Strange! Lady Ottoline's photos are fascinating. I first saw many of them back in the mid 70s when a friend of mine had the book of them that had been published back then.
cheers, Hel
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 15, 2020 13:37:00 GMT
I've definitely seen some of those photos before too - particularly the one with Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey (possibly in a biography of Russell that I read years ago).
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 15, 2020 14:18:23 GMT
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Post by PeterC on Jul 15, 2020 17:26:52 GMT
I went to one of those gatherings. HG Wells stole my spats.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 15, 2020 17:51:01 GMT
I still maintain, perhaps perversely, that it is a tomb.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 15, 2020 19:27:55 GMT
I went to one of those gatherings. HG Wells stole my spats. Aldous Huxley ate my mushrooms.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 15, 2020 21:01:41 GMT
Thanks again, Dr Strange. Beautiful passage by Juliette Huxley at the end of that.
"Shandygaff Hall" was a joke name for Garsington the painter and rebellious spirit Carrington called it in a letter to Lytton whom she tragically adored.
My favorite evocation of Garsington is in the film version of Women in Love. The Ottoline character was played of course by Eleanor Bron... one of her best performances, for this viewer at least.
H.
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Post by Knygathin on Jul 15, 2020 21:42:45 GMT
I will hazard a guess: The back kitchen entrance of Dunsany Castle. That would really have been bizarre - swinging in there and nibbling freely from Lord Dunsany's larder. I can hardly think of two more disparate writers.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 16, 2020 0:05:10 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jul 16, 2020 17:29:54 GMT
I never read a story from de la Mare. Are these classic ghost tales?
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