Word: aelfric
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...time machines to Stanley Kubrick's space odyssey. Moreover, Frayn's first sentence-"Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber"-gets the whole thing off to a bad start. Sure enough, Uncumber has a mother called Frideswide and a father called Aelfric. The coyly chosen names and the uneasy use of the future tense suggest a particularly tiresome and traditionally British kind of whimsy...
...literary critic. TIME style not only exists; it stinks. It may be economical, as you suggest, in a narrow, mechanical sort of way, but I'll bet that most people who have read widely and appreciatively in the great tradition of English and American prose from Aelfric to Stein & Joyce will agree that the prose in your magazine is pretty awful...
...birth to one Caedmon, a monk in Whitby monastery, and the first true English poet. The other poets of this division of the Heptarchy were Aldhelm of Wessex, Bede, King Alfred and Cynewulf. Wessex took the lead in rose and produced King Alfred, St. Dunstan, and Abbots Wulfstan and Aelfric...
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