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...marriage, the strange and estranged son, the failed hair transplant - start piling up, the Knowledge can do nothing to keep his wheels on the road. Descending into insanity, Dave empties all his warped, dyspeptic rage into a hate-filled memoir that he buries in his ex-wife's garden. Several centuries on, after a great flood has reduced England to an archipelago and returned society to a pretaxi - indeed, premedieval - state, Dave's book is unearthed and becomes a kind of New Knowledge, the founding text of a new religion that rules in the land of Ing (all that remains...
...Mather Lather party.Symonds played a major role in the planning of the technical installations for the Harvard Dance Center that opened this year in the Quad and the New College Theatre (NCT) that is currently being built in the place of the old Hasty Pudding Theatre on Garden Street.Megan said the New College Theatre will be Symonds’ “most lasting legacy.”“Alan worked on the project for years, providing the planning team with essential technical advice and a very informed point of view on how students do theatre at Harvard...
...poem “Weeds and Peonies,” he describes Kenyon’s abandoned garden...
...infinite variety and character of English gardens have been delighting visitors for centuries. And the green and pleasant land's love affair with horticulture still thrives?an array of sublime landscapes awaits those prepared to venture off the proverbial garden path. Classical gardens don't get much finer than those at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century, the grounds are so grand it's said they inspired Jane Austen's vision of Mr. Darcy's home in Pride and Prejudice; Chatsworth was used as the set of his house for last year's film...
...Similarly historical but recently restyled is the Duchess of Northumberland's extravagant garden at Alnwick, Northumberland, pictured, which boasts the world's largest tree house and a poison garden, alnwickgarden.com. For English eccentricity at its best, visit filmmaker Derek Jarman's strange but enchanting garden on the shingle beach in Dungeness, Kent. At Prospect Cottage, in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, lavender and poppies poke out behind sculptures fashioned from old gardening tools and driftwood. Jarman featured the garden as both Gethsemane and Eden in one of his last films. There will be plenty there to tempt...