(urth) Rose the Graced not Rose the Chaste

Mo Holkar / UKG lists at ukg.co.uk
Mon Jun 23 03:31:13 PDT 2008


At 06:59 23/06/2008, you wrote:
> > This story is referenced in "A Solar Labyrinth": "The Fayre 
> Rosamund dropped
> > her embroidery with her needle thrust through it, but forgot the 
> yarn in her
> > pocket, thus furnishing Queen Eleanor's knights with the clue they required
> > to solve Hampton Court Maze."
>
>I will merely comment that the Hampton Court Maze was created at the 
>end of the 17th century.


Indeed -- the maze that concealed Rosamund was supposedly at 
Woodstock. Whether this is more likely to be the narrator of A Solar 
Labyrinth subtly misleading us, or Wolfe making a mistake, who can say.

best,

Mo


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