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I am delighted that there is going to be more Earthsea to read. It was hinted at in the press here but no details of publication were given. Tonight I am taking a break from LOTR to read out of the two Passchendaele books I picked up today. My uncle died there. I dont have the greatest urgency with LOTR. Today in a pub I was chatting with the Bath WAterstones children books manager and we were extoling Philip Pullman. It is a pity he couldnt pull all his threads together in the final volume but it is still a brilliant piece of work. It seems he is Welsh rather than Oxford. The TV programme on Iris Murdoch last night was exceptionally good. Do I really need to see the film now? The only book of hers I have upstairs is 'Metaphysics as a guide to morals' which was too boring to finish. Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Douglas Barbour wrote: > Dom > > aside from having enjoyed the poem, I'd like tpo tell you that two Earthsea > books came out last year: Tales from Earthsea, which also includes a > history from 'the archive' & The Other Wind, a novel. Concluding the sexond > trilogy, in which the other story, of the women of Earthsea, & their > powers, gets told. Wonderful, especially the apparently plain style that > echoes folktales & tells more than it says... > > Doug > > Douglas Barbour > Department of English > University of Alberta > Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 > (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm > > Cinder of the lexical drift. > > Susan Howe >