"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Jane the Fool

When we think about Court Fools, the mind immediately associates them with jesters. We might think of capers, jokes and, eventually, physical disability.
This is, however, a concept that was consolidated in Elizabethan times, and there’s a portion of Early Reinassance in which another kind of fool was mostly popular: the innocent.
Today we take a look at this kind of concept, as one of the historical innocents at the Tudor court features in the flash-backs of my Gothic Novel. Those of you in the higher tier will be able to read about this character in the three-parts chapter that will be published this week on Patreon.

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Seamus Heaney was a major Irish poet, born in 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He’s especially known for writing about rural life, memory, language, and Irish history. Death of a Naturalist is both the

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