{Where The Rainbow Ends}[10th October 1982]

[Redbook2:256-257][19821010:2000]{Where The Rainbow Ends}[10^th October 1982]

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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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