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***Sharkû*** · 03-17-2002, 09:43 AM

In a footnote to Letter #163 (to WH Auden, btw):

"Their [the Ents'] pan in the story is due, I think, to my bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays with the shabby use made in Shakespeare of the coming of 'Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill': I longed to devise a setting in which the trees might really march to war."

03-17-2002, 09:43 AM	#2
*Sharkû* Hungry Ghoul Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 1,719	In a footnote to Letter #163 (to WH Auden, btw): "Their [the Ents'] pan in the story is due, I think, to my bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays with the shabby use made in Shakespeare of the coming of 'Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill': I longed to devise a setting in which the trees might really march to war."