Avilion was completed in... «The Blind Assassin»
innashpitzberg20 апреля 2012Avilion was completed in 1889, and christened by Adelia. She took the name from Tennyson:
The island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown’d with summer sea, . . .
She had this quotation printed on the left-hand inner side of her Christmas cards. (Tennyson was somewhat out of date, by English standards – Oscar Wilde was in the ascendant then, at least among the younger set – but then, everything in Port Ticonderoga was somewhat out of date.)
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