The Glory of Apartment Names

'Off with his tail!' Sir Devon was never the same after that.

Advice to visitors: (1) recline, breathe and observe; (2) do not worry that the language is foreign to you; (3) open your ears and try to catch the rhyme and rhythm.

So we can progress

Boadicea

As gentle and shapeless as a pitch-black threshing belt in a birdpond, Milmine’s only power was her ability to surprise the Fates. She survives today in a number of edifices: tall, prism-like, stable.

Rowan had – for days (weeks?) now – languished on the line between here and infinity: ‘should I finish this almost-empty bottle of olives?’

– Dr. James William Ward

"In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds"

"Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist. 'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, That bring the fog and mist."

"O well, bright dame, may you command The service of Sir Leoline; And gladly our stout chivalry Will he send forth, and friends withal, To guide and guard you safe and free Home to your noble father's hall."

The conundrum of Babushka Mysteries is not that they reveal themselves in a particular order, but that until the last is solved we do not know whether the mysteries are becoming smaller or larger.

Tie me to the weeping willow

"O sorrow and shame! Can this be she, The lady, who knelt at the old oak tree?"

"The ship hath been suddenly becalmed."

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."

"The fruit-like perfume of the golden furze"

A tiro nin, Fanuilos!"