The garden
Place
Back garden of the Mangotsfield bungalow: tyres, hound-merds, lotophagoi and Charybdis. Eden, after local consultation.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
She tarried not, but straightaway herself betook through wicket gate and through the garden all festooned with long brennt tyres and merds of hound and eke of lotophagoi who do choose to do their business under privet hedge amidst the mulch of cardboard packaging and magazines depicting well-waxed odalisques in congress with their ’roidal swains. The door yielded to the key which she retained. Within, all was as before: velour,…