[Redbook2:256-257][19821010:2000]{Where
The Rainbow Ends}[10th
October 1982]
19821010:2000
I
should put this in perspective by pointing out that I have also just
discovered the pattern of 'Where the Rainbow Ends' around [...]land:
not so much in its landscape, as in the overall symmetry of its less
political symbolism: the journey from St. George's hill, past the
Slacker and the Dragon King's territory, to the shore where the
Rainbow Ends more or less exactly corresponds to part of the Outer
Circle route.
Start
from what seems to be emerging as the City of St. Michael (within?)
and St. George (without?): on the basis that, as one of the books
which I part-read* last week says, the two are often identified as
different aspects of the same idea – a thought which did occur to
me some time back but I disregarded it as too tenuous; I am prepared
to accept other authority! (The connection is to Ogbourne St. George
in what I hope will be '[1]'). Pass round the outer shore through
the point Complication (entering the Dragon's Wood?), past
Distraction (the Slacker; also Mills' Elves etc.?); past the point
Fragmentation (well, I don't know); the coast Revolution which is
marked already with shipwrecks; and so to the point Simplification
round the corner of which is, of course, the House at the End of the
World (per ['0']).
It
is also, by the colour scheme of the Great Circles, presumably where
the Rainbow (or spectrum) ends: the rainbow of course has another
end, which presumably is somewhere around the point Ordination. In a
more ironic sense it is so too: here the wayfarer or pilgrim (to whom
Mills continually refers, as if other
than
the 4 children of the book) must, in the Great Circles, choose, if he
goes, to go round again – or cross to the adjacent Inner Circle
station Love, presumably by a route affording a glimpse of the
Castle, and start the inward circuit in the reverse direction.
*[“Where
the Rainbow Ends: A Fairy Story by Clifford Mills based on the Fairy
Play of the same name by Clifford Mills and John Ramsey”, Hodder
And Stoughton Limited, London, c.1912ff]
*(Michell,
'The View over Atlantis'; Abacus, 1975, p.54.)
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