Sara and the Book: Part II
Nov. 11th, 2009 12:39 amThere are genii locorum scattered all across Cambridge. Two thousand years ago the spirit of the forest covered all England, but as the trees were slowly cleared it fractured into thousands of wavering local essences. Many of the most active lingered in Cambridge, as the shrinking island of forest spirit huddled alone in the fens, and when fleeing scholars from Oxford passed through the place they settled their to study and befriend them.
Some became invaluable allies in the study of theology and science, and vast stone seats of learning were erected round them. Others were simpler, quick, hot spots of raw emotion where markets would form and lovers would couple incautiously behind the stalls. Some were dangerous, and the hastily erected buildings served to contain them as much as to house them. One haunted some of the land north of the river, and building projects chased it north and south for centuries, and finally it was hemmed in, but as a binding structure was erected round it, it rose slowly above it, until it was eventually entrapped in a concrete tower hundreds of feet high.
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Some became invaluable allies in the study of theology and science, and vast stone seats of learning were erected round them. Others were simpler, quick, hot spots of raw emotion where markets would form and lovers would couple incautiously behind the stalls. Some were dangerous, and the hastily erected buildings served to contain them as much as to house them. One haunted some of the land north of the river, and building projects chased it north and south for centuries, and finally it was hemmed in, but as a binding structure was erected round it, it rose slowly above it, until it was eventually entrapped in a concrete tower hundreds of feet high.
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