smoke&song

There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song.

Dorothy L. Sayers on the writing of Gaudy Night, from Howard Haycraft’s The Art of the Mystery Story (1946)

Hey Cakespeare, I finally found this essay as promised! It wasn’t online, but I scanned it out of the library book and ran it through OCR and posted the full text at the link.

(Please note: full of spoilers. But well worth reading once you’re through the book!)

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    You, you light up my liiiife.
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