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From Bede (731) to BONE (1991-2004): A sparrow's flight through the ages
This blog post looks at how Bede’s famous parable of the sparrow was reused in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Even such, that transient Thing,The human Soul; not utterly unknownWhile in the Body lodged, her warm abode;But from what world She came, what woe or wealOn her departure waits, no tongue hath shown;This mystery if the Stranger can reveal,His be a welcome cordially bestowed! Who would be the winter sparrowthat flies at night by mistake into a lighted halland flutters the length of it in zigzag panic,dazed and terrified by the heat and noise and smoke,the drink-fumes and the oaths, the guttering flames,feast-bones thrown to a snarl of wolfhounds,flash of swords in sodden sorry quarrels,till at last he sees the other doorand skims out in relief and joyinto the stormy dark? Here is an image taken from the prequel volume Rose(2000-2002) and shows the ‘headmaster of the Venu’ (the hooded figure) explaining how ‘the dreaming’ (a sort of spirit world where everyone comes from and to which everyone must one day return) works.
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