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01-16-2005, 11:24 AM | #1 |
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The Amorous Oxford Ghost
This is just to say that I went on a day-trip to Oxford with Boyfriend while we were in England last week. Boyfriend was nice enough to take me to the Eagle & Child pub where, as you know, the Inklings, Tolkien among them, used to hang out.
The place itself was reeeally nice in terms of great fatty food and mulled wine and beer. We had a really good time in the smoking section. The have a portrait of Tolkien and everything up on the wall, with some other dude. I was really happy, the pub has a good vibe. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't yet been, it's a really old place, but it's bouncy nonetheless. Though Oxford in general itself depressed me a little, I just know if I lived there the ghosts would drive me insane. But speaking of ghosts. I swear, I am not senile yet, when I tell you that while we stood outside of the Eagle & Child (or Bird & Baby) looking at the menu, something, um, grabbed me from, uh, behind. I turned around half-expecting to see a drunken tourist, or maybe the people walking out had clipped me with their bags, but no, it was just an empty street, and this really weird feeling like something wasn't quite right. Boyfriend can attest that during this incident I was neither drunk or drugged. It was uncanny. You read about Oxford's great history, stretching itself down the corridor of time as far as the human eye can see, and lo and behold, a part of history detaches itself from the ether and, um, pinches you. I'm so totally not joking. I'll never get over it. And I think it was probably the ghost of C.S. Lewis, Tolkien being too Catholic for that sort of thing. Yeah, Lewis turned Christian too and blah blah blah, but I can see him being a little bored with the afterlife these days. Ok, I know the above sounds completely ridiculous, but I swear that it happened.
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