St. Martin's in the Fields

I am tempted to say something implausible, that I am attracting bells, because bells are appearing to me, in print. The truth is that a bit of Buson has rubbed off on me. I seem to have a heightened awareness of literary references to bells after visiting with Buson's sound-of-the-bell haiku last week.

Tonight, I opened my copy of George Orwell's novel, 1984, to page 88 and found myself reading about bells:

"All the while they were talking the half-remembered rhyme kept running through Winston's head: Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St. Martin's! (George Orwell, 1984, New York, NY: Harcourt Brace, 1949, 1977)"

The main character is astonished to discover that the sing-song rhyme evokes the illusion of pealing church bells.

That is the power of language--it has the capacity to engage the imagination so fully that we see and hear and feel things we might never see or hear or feel otherwise.

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