PEACOCKS IN SOMERSET.(Critical Essay)

Contemporary Review | May 1, 2001| | Copyright

THE setting of this sketch is a cottage garden on the edge of a Somerset village. The time is a warm, sunny afternoon in October 1999. Along one side of the garden runs a large bank of nasturtiums, well past their flowering best. As I stood, wondering whether the time had come to demolish them in the interests of the compost heap, I was suddenly frozen to the spot. Out of the nasturtiums rose three wonderful electric-blue necks, each topped by an imperious Jurassic face: peacocks! Out of nowhere, peacocks! I wondered about this apparition: peacocks; in my book, such amazing ...

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