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Word: hernshaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daylight finally comes, "sending away the enchanted forest and all the magic of the night and revealing a scene, more resembling a battlefield, of trampled grass, empty bottles, broken glasses, upturned chairs, errant garments, and every sort of unattractive human debris." The revelers emerge the worse for wear. Gerard Hernshaw, the acknowledged leader of this elite band, has learned by phone that his ill father has died overnight. Gerard's oldest and closest friends, Jenkin Riderhood and Duncan Cambus, are drunk and disoriented. Although Duncan seldom needs a reason for such a condition, in the aftermath of this midsummer night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Midsummer Night's Madness | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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