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2 The Neighbourhood Abortionist's Bam

3 The Lynx in the Withy Cage

PART TWO

! The Norther Hills

2 Turrets

3 The Darling Despair

4 The Haunt in the Well

5 The Blind Bed

6 Journey North

7 Northstrong

PART THREE

1 The Melancholy Plain. East

2 The Mystic Floating Penis

3 Dissolve

INTRODUCTION

ONCE UPON a time. when life was rather drab, I found another
place to go toЧa place of hot gold light, dark green forest
dripping with insects, strange bird calls, rainbows, of moun-
tains, hills and plainsЧa landscape large enough to be lost in,
where the cities were as savage as the geography, and where
the army, in whose wake I was being dragged, mounted its
officers (when not on wine-girls) on the stalking backs of
huge flightless birds- ... I'd never read anything like it, and
I couldn't believe my luck- Along with helping to save my
sanity at that time, Jane Gaskell had introduced me to a world
that remains for me as primally fresh as its own origins. And
to a heroine whose very weaknesses are her strengths. Cija,
pronounced Keeya. Pleasing, maddening, poly-endurable Cija,
ever unable to languish, unpredictably sensible, haphazardly
armored by the roughest-shod experience. She is by turns a
sulky aristocrat, a dashing tomboy, a cynical slut. a seduc-
tress quite unconscious of her charms. She is an innocent who
logically reels at life's illogical punishments. She makes the
journey most of us do, from the complacent security of