Daily Archives: Saturday: April 29, 2006

A Favorite Passage

Like most of us, LanguageHat dislikes ‘Historical Novelese’. Here’s Robert Graves’ parody of the genre, from a fictional fiction about the Diet of Worms: ‘Nay,’ cried the good bailiff of Hochschloss, ‘all folk who journey through this bailiwick must first … Continue reading

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