Alan Garner

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:

> The other Garner book that sticks in my mind is "The Weirdstone of
> Brisingamen," which we read at primary school.  I can't remember
> the remotest thing about it, apart from a sense that it fascinated
> me. I'll have to rediscover that too.

In September/October of 1984, I moved from NYC back to my hometown 
LA, and stayed in Lee's house long enough to read a very large 
number of books (I wasn't on-line in those days!) that she plucked 
from her bookshelves for me. Tommy Hambledon, Judge Dee ... and The 
Owl Service and Weirdstone of Brisingamen were two of them.

Weirdstone of Brisingamen, to my disappointment, has NOTHING to do 
with the Brisingamen, which is Freya's necklace. The general 
theme is the "future" part of "once and future king". I wanted 
to do that in Latin, but senility is setting in and I can't 
remember the Latin that I saw so often in the front pages of my 
T. H. White paperback....   Rex quondum hic jacet?