I'm really excited about this book (and am tempted to mail a copy to one deeply infuriating linguist I know who insists culture is limited to language and things created with that language, writing off literally everything else as somehow not part of culture). I'd also really like to read your masters thesis.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read The Lost Folk and for your beautiful review - it’s really wonderful to read your insights and I’m so glad to have inspired you - it really is the best thing you can hope for that your words chime with the person reading them. So thank you! Also you MUST go seek out Pan - it’s the most amazing village, deeply uncanny in a very Cotswold way.
Your description makes me want to read this book. It complements a theme in a book I'm reading now, Jane Austen's Bookshelf, which is about rare book collecting and book as object (with its own history) as separate from book as a mere physical medium for intangible expressions.
I'm really excited about this book (and am tempted to mail a copy to one deeply infuriating linguist I know who insists culture is limited to language and things created with that language, writing off literally everything else as somehow not part of culture). I'd also really like to read your masters thesis.
oh my god, the church-kneelers really are a manifestation of centuries of humility
Thank you so much for taking the time to read The Lost Folk and for your beautiful review - it’s really wonderful to read your insights and I’m so glad to have inspired you - it really is the best thing you can hope for that your words chime with the person reading them. So thank you! Also you MUST go seek out Pan - it’s the most amazing village, deeply uncanny in a very Cotswold way.
Lally 🌞
Your description makes me want to read this book. It complements a theme in a book I'm reading now, Jane Austen's Bookshelf, which is about rare book collecting and book as object (with its own history) as separate from book as a mere physical medium for intangible expressions.
Can’t wait to get my grubby lil fingerprints all over this book!
This sounds like such an interesting read!