Word: waler
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...landscape of "hearty little horsewoman" Lorna Shoddy is also transfigured by fire. "A bell of silence clapped itself down over the blackened trees and turf," writes Hall, "her world curling at the edges and noiselessly crepitating, little spits of silence dodging among the ashes." Stripped of her beloved Australian Waler horses, and without the support of family, Mrs. Shoddy is reduced, by all appearances, to madness. At 73 she finds herself straitjacketed in a country psychiatric ward where "the only freedom to move is in the memory." This returns in fits and starts, but is sustained by the rekindling...