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POWYS (T.F.) Unclay...
Pastmaster at exorcising goatish emanations from rural England's maids, meadows, men and mud, Author Powys sticks to his increasingly familiar incantation like a leech. As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar. Only one newcomer is in the book, Last Comer Death...
Scythe and all, John Death comes to Dodder with a parchment signed in flame ordering him to unclay Joe Bridle and his truelove Susie Dawes. Death drops the parchment by Joe Bridle's pond; Joe hides it under his shirt. At a loss for once, Death rents a house in Dodder to await the discovery of his parchment, or new orders from above...
...wedding night orders come from above to unclay Susie's father and Farmer Mere. Mere, who has stolen John Death's scythe to torture Susie with, is cut down by it himself. Susie runs off to meet Joe Bridle by his pond. When their eternal moment of loving is at an end, Death appears to execute his orders. Hand in hand, Joe and Susie walk into the pond. Death disappears...
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