Word: ossian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Firetrucks surrounded an empty deteriorating house that had been repeatedly set afire and extinguished by fire fighters. Close up, one could see on each truck the seal of the city, beautifully painted, and on it a picture of Ossian Hall, a plantation house built in Annandale about 1783--a structure historic enough to give the community a sense of its heritage and its identity...
...house being burned was Ossian Hall...
...does it permeate his story of Don Juan? As the books' sales mount, the resistance multiplies. Three parodies of Castaneda have appeared in New York magazines and papers lately, and the critics seem to be preparing to skewer Don Juan as a kind of anthropological Ossian, the legendary third century Gaelic poet whose works James Macpherson foisted upon 18th century British readers...