"The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble."

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Source : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.62, F+W Media, Inc.

Hope Mirrlees

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