Graham
set us off with Beowulf's Last Stand against the firedrake, Gill's
cello creating emotional atmosphere. Jill told us the tale of
cross-dressing Vasilissa Vasilievna, the priest's daughter, pursued
in vain by King Barchat [Vasilissa shows, to my mind, her essentially
male cast of mind, by being in and out of the bathroom before the
King's got his clothes off]. Marie Little told us a tale from the
India of Independence, in which European arrogance in cutting down a
tree against the advice and pleading of the native inhabitants
produced dire results for those involved. Glenys told us La morte
del corvo, in which, in a North
Italian town, a crow falls dying from the air, leaving her to comfort
its last moments, dispose of the body ecologically, and wait with
trepidation for the accomplishment of whatever the event signified.
Pete, accompanied by Gill, and with himself on thunder-box [no, not
that kind of thunder-box], related how Thor Got His Hammer Back [more
cross-dressing]. Laura told us The Genie of the Coke-CanTM
– there are three wishes as usual, but if I say any more I'll spoil
it. Mike told Rabbi Zachariah and Death By Fire, from Howard
Schwarz's Lilith's Cave,
and Taprisha concluded the tales of the evening with The Children of
Wax and the Bird of Paradise. After which, Anne sang Dancing
at Whitsun, as she had at the
Druid Ceremony in commemoration of the dead of the First World War
held at the National Arboretum.
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