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Article: PEACOCKS IN SOMERSET.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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THE setting of this sketch is a cottage garden on the edge of a Somerset village. The time is a warm, sunny afternoon in October 1999. Along one side of the garden runs a large bank of nasturtiums, well past their flowering best. As I stood, wondering whether the time had come to demolish them in the interests of the compost heap, I was suddenly frozen to the spot. Out of the nasturtiums rose three wonderful electric-blue necks, each topped by an imperious Jurassic face: peacocks! Out of nowhere, peacocks! I wondered about this apparition: peacocks; in my book, such amazing creatures belong to country mansions, 'with statues on the terrace. And peacocks strutting by ...' ...
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