Word: hempen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working day begins. Guards push a pile of hempen fiber through the kormushka...
...haven of the familiar in Epstein's inhospitable forest; yet even they become possessed, reacting to Bottom's "translation" by careering across the stage in hops, sprints and tumbles while the musicians play one of Purcell's country dances. The sorcery of the wood finds little purchase on their "hempen homespun" minds, but gets at then anyway through their bodies...