{"id":609,"date":"2009-03-12T02:11:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-03-16T04:47:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:47:36","slug":"more-on-broceliande-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/03\/12\/more-on-broceliande-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Broceliande forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is indeed in that forest, inextricably mingled with the mystical sea-spiritual distance, that all these places of margel must lie. It is, after all, one of the great forests of myth &#8211; greater because of its hidden mysteries than Arden or Birnam or Westermain. The wood of Comus may be compared with it; and indeed it is poetically a part of it, except that itis a holy place and uninhabited by such sorcerers. A nobler comparison is with the forsest which Dante found at the foot of the Mount of Purgatory and where he came again to himself, or that other on the height o the Mount where Beatrice came again to him. But it is not proper to do more than shyly observe comparisons between such myths. It is a place of making and of all the figures concerned with making.<\/p>\n<p>-Charles Williams, The Figure of Arthur, p.82<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other mysterious woods?<\/p>\n<p>Arden, Birnam, Westermain, and Comus.<\/p>\n<p>Where do we find these? Among other places&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare (As You Like It), Shakespeare (MacBeth), George MacDonald, Milton<\/p>\n<p>respectively.<\/p>\n<p>But Broceliande is really more than any of these. It is THE place of making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is indeed in that forest, inextricably mingled with the mystical sea-spiritual distance, that all these places of margel must lie. It is, after all, one of the great forests of myth &#8211; greater because of its hidden mysteries than Arden or Birnam or Westermain. The wood of Comus may be compared with it; and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/03\/12\/more-on-broceliande-forest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on Broceliande forest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myth-and-legend"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}