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 Yesterday, I managed to stick to the plan:

Short Story Cap 'O' Rushes, and English fairy tale.

It's like a happy King Lear meets Cinderella. A lovely little story

Essay: Lewis Carroll and the Private Life of Words by James A. Williams

Fascinating insights into Alice and Wonderland and other works by Carroll. It's available on JSTOR

Poem:

Postscript

by R.S. Thomas

As life improved, their poems

Grew sadder and sadder. Was there oil

For the machine? It was

The vinegar in the poets' cup.

The tins marched to the music

Of the conveyor belt. A billion

Mouths opened. Production,

Production, the wheels

Whistled. Among the forests

Of metal the one human

Sound was the lament of

The poets for deciduous language.