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 | | And I see Dorothy lying on her tapestried chaise-longue in the back extension to the Faulconbridge house - that big, big, wooden-panelled, bookshelf-lined, stained-glass windowed cathedral-ceilinged room which is her outer world now, with its French doors and windows opening out on to the enclosed garden that her husband, balladist and writer Merv Lilley, planted. |
 | | Hewett can see the sea of time engulfing her own 'notes' and, as an intimation of mortality, the owl crops up on the last leaf of the collection 'in the ruins of Athena's temple/ hooting a warning'. |
 | | But Dorothy Hewett has got a lot left to say, and will say it, for after all - as her doctor recently told her - she's going to live for a long and painful old age. |
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