Eastward
There, eastward, within a stone's throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as a house of cards, clear-cut in the sunshine, the drenched oval in the quad beneath brilliant as an emerald in the bezel of a ring.Behind them, black and grey, New College frowning like a fortress, with dark wings wheeling about her belfry louvres; and Queen's with her dome of green copper; and, as the eye turned southward, Magdalen, yellow and slender, the tall lily of towers; the Schools and the battlemented front of University; Merton, square-pinnacled, half-hidden behind the shadowed North side and mounting spire of St. Mary's.Westward again, Christ Church, vast between Cathedral spire and Tom Tower; Brasenose close at hand; St. Aldate's and Carfax beyond; spire and tower and quadrangle, all Oxford springing underfoot in living leaf and enduring stone, ringed far off by her bulwark of blue hills. ~Gaudy Night
Photos © M. Datiles 2005-2010.
4 Comments:
GORGEOUS PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOsh, for that one passsage alone I'm going to ordedr the book right now on B&N! THANKS!!!!
MAGDALEN TOWER ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(sorry, my excitement got the better of me. tsk, tsk. .... love the photo! "Oh, dreamy city" and those 'dreaming spires'... Who cares about San Francisco? I left my heart in .... Oxford!
Glad to have spread the "Sayers" fever--she wrote the book. And yes, the one passage says a lot.
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