{"id":57562,"date":"2022-11-23T03:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=57562"},"modified":"2022-11-22T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:52:18","slug":"caerdroia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/11\/23\/caerdroia\/","title":{"rendered":"Caerdroia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wormwoodiana<\/a><\/em> looks at ‘Mazes and Labyrinths’…<\/p>\n

There may well still be lost turf maze sites still to be discovered, using detailed place-name evidence or possibly local traditions: I came across one by chance a while ago in a church guide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… and there’s the potential for newly-created ones, I imagine. One can of course make a temporary ‘summer maze’ of simple mown grass, which may better suit the hand-wringing nay-sayers on the Parish Council. But a more permanent turf-sod maze can’t be too difficult to make once you have a few tons of thick sods delivered to the land. Some drainage pipes too. Since, as Shakespeare pointed out, anything built as channels-in-turf is liable to gather muddy water in our British climate…<\/p>\n

The nine-men’s-morris is filled up with mud,
\nAnd the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
\nFor lack of tread, are undistinguishable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Wormwoodiana<\/em> article usefully makes me aware of the Caerdroia<\/em> journal, a long-running scholarly journal dedicated to the topic of mazes and their cultural uses. Possibly a home for your prospective article discussing notable pulp \/ early-SF mazes, such as the Lovecraft\/Sterling story “In the Walls of Eryx”?<\/p>\n

The Caerdroia<\/em> Archive<\/a> has a range of free public PDFs. Such as “Arthur Machen and the Maze Theme” (1991), which may interest some Tentaclii<\/em> readers. Also out-of-print 2003-17 back-issues<\/a> as free .PDFs. I’ve added the indexing URL to JURN and the .PDFs can now be found via my JURN search-engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wormwoodiana looks at ‘Mazes and Labyrinths’… There may well still be lost turf maze sites still to be discovered, using …<\/p>\n

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