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The story has been cited as an example of "manipulative systems" in Wolfe's work, in that the mercenaries are lured into landing in a castle on the pretext that they will be provided with straw for fuel, only to be told that they must first defend the castle from attackers; [3] Thomas D. Clareson observed that despite the story ending with an ...
In Gunn's next book, Jack Straw's Castle (1976), the dream modulates into nightmare, related partly to his actual anxiety-dreams about moving house, and partly to the changing American political climate. "But my life," he wrote, "insists on continuities — between America and England, between free verse and metre, between vision and everyday ...
Jack Straw's Castle is a Grade II listed building [1] and former public house on North End Way, Hampstead, north-west London, England close to the junction with Heath Street and Spaniards Road. The site is named after the rebel leader Jack Straw, who led the Peasants' Revolt in 1381 and who is said to have taken refuge on the site until he was ...
Jack Straw's Castle may refer to: a place associated with Jack Straw's Lane, Oxfordshire; Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead This page was last edited on 1 ...
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed—trapping air—thatching also functions as insulation.
Unheated main cabin meals are available for preorder on most Alaska flights of 775miles or longer. They typically cost $7.50 to $10.50, according to Johnston.
[note 1] The king calls for the girl, locks her up in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will have her killed. [note 2] When she has given up all hope, a little imp-like man appears in the room and spins the straw into gold in return for her necklace of glass beads. The ...
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