"Charles De Lint - The Little Country" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Lint Charles)

First Tor Edition: March 1993

First Orb Edition: April 2001



Printed in the United States of America



0987654321




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v1.0 July 2004




AuthorтАЩs Note

{Page11}The novel that follows is a work of fiction. All characters and events in this book are fictitious
and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

The tune titles heading each chapter are all traditional, except for тАЬLeppadumdowledum,тАЭ which was
composed by Donal Lunny; тАЬSo There I Was,тАЭ composed by John Kirkpatrick; and тАЬAbsurd Good
News.тАЭ Musicians interested in tracking down the tunes should look for them in the usual sources?
тАФtunebooks, old and new, but especially in the repertoire of musicians, whether recorded or in live
performance and sessions; those tunes credited to Janey Little have been transcribed and can be found in
the appendix at the end of the novel for the hopeful enjoyment of interested players.
 A work such as this doesnтАЩt grow out of a vacuum.The Little Country had its origin in sources too
exhaustive to list with any real thoroughness, but I can still pinpoint its original spark: many an evening in
the early seventies spent listening to my friend Don Flamanck telling stories of Cornwall as he
remembered it. When my wife, Mary Ann, and I finally went to Cornwall in October of 1988 to research
this bookтАЩs settings, we found it to be everything Don had promised it would be, and more.

Thanks are due to Don, first and foremost, for that inspiration, and also to Phil and Audrey Wallis of
Mousehole for more wonderful stories and their hospitality; to Bernard Evans of Newlyn for filling me in
on the local music scene; to Ben Batten, Christopher Bice, Des Hannigan, John Hocking, Robert Hunt,
John and Nettie Pender, Derek Tangye, Douglas Tregenza, Ken Ward, G. Pawley White, and a
multitude of others too numerous to list here for background material; to Colin Wilson for his logical
explorations of those things{Page 12}that defy logic; to those many, many traditional musicians, again too
numerous to mention, who keep the music alive and give it new life with each note they play; to those
musicians who attend the local music sessions here in Ottawa (тАЬAll of a Monday NightтАЭ) and by their
enthusiasm keep my own playing in right good fettle; and last, though not least, to my wife, Mary Ann, a
mean mandolin player in her own right, for her support, both musical and literary, and for her love that I