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November Studies

Observing the month of decline, first snow with L.M. Montgomery, Rita Dove and company

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Nov 19, 2023
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Flirtations with the freezing mark. Temporal squalls.

November feels like the first bracket between a sentence that will last several months. Before icicles, before trees turn skeletal, before the ivory of winter sets in, this peculiar month arrives.

L.M. Montgomery wrote of November in The Blue Castle, describing the uncanny witchery in its charged trees.

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