![]() As history would have it, in 1920 a large assembly of Bedward’s followers gathered to see him fulfill his promise to fly up to Heaven. In his novel “Augustown” (Pantheon), his third, a canny old blind woman named Ma Taffy tells her grandnephew Kaia the story of Alexander Bedward, a Baptist preacher in the parish of St. Another of his poems speculates that a law the British Empire established on how to handle mermaids (in essence: turn them into colonial subjects) led the marvellous creatures to withdraw from all further contact with the human race. ![]() The richness and heft that is lost in the making of official accounts of the world is one of Miller’s favorite themes. Guess me whose map will tell the larger truth? ![]() Then I will draw a map of what you never seeĪnd guess me whose map will be bigger than whose? ![]()
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