Hellelil and Hildebrand. The meeting on the turret stairs (1864) by Frederic William Burton (1816–1900), recently voted Ireland’s favorite painting-Frederic subscribed to the Pre-Raphaelite school-no chairoscuro here just tell the story-no holds barred.
Another mistaken lover story in Orhan Pamuk's brilliant and seldom cited A Strangeness in My Mind, wherein our hero, in love with one village maiden, elopes with her under cover of darkness only to discover that the beloved is. . . her sister!
Great writing and descriptions! My favorite: "the moral fiber of a Manx cat in a Maine spring". I literally laughed out loud.
Another mistaken lover story in Orhan Pamuk's brilliant and seldom cited A Strangeness in My Mind, wherein our hero, in love with one village maiden, elopes with her under cover of darkness only to discover that the beloved is. . . her sister!
I was hoping you would! xo
OH, NANCY...the strangeness of his mind, indeed! The duper is duped! It must have happened in every culture.