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Jonathan Strange
In person he was rather tall and his figure was considered good. Some people thought him handsome, but this was not by any means the universal opinion. His face had two faults: a long nose and an ironic expression. It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.
-Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
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Centuries ago, when magic still existed in England, the greatest magician of them all was the Raven King. A human child brought up by fairies, the Raven King blended fairy wisdom and human reason to create English magic. Now, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he is barely more than a legend, and England, with its mad King and its dashing poets, no longer believes in practical magic.
Then the reclusive Mr Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey appears and causes the statues of York Cathedral to speak and move. News spreads of the return of magic to England and, persuaded that he must help the government in the war against Napoleon, Mr Norrell goes to London. There he meets a brilliant young magician and takes him as a pupil. Jonathan Strange is charming, rich and arrogant. Together, they dazzle the country with their feats.
But the partnership soon turns to rivalry. Mr Norrell has never conquered his lifelong habits of secrecy, while Strange will always be attracted to the wildest, most perilous magic. He becomes fascinated by the shadowy figure of the Raven King, and his heedless pursuit of long-forgotten magic threatens, not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything that he holds dear.
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Your Kagome's "What am I doing here?" face. I, and most Inu fans agree, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?! I'll tell you, ruining the romantic scenes with Inuyasha, and causeing more trouble then you could possibly be worth. Not that you do any work anyway.
Advice: Go home, and don't come back.
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Jonathan Strange describes Miss Clarke
I am excessively fond of novels - particularly the works of Miss Austen and Mrs Radcliffe. I confess that I have not yet found the time to read Miss Clarke⿿s production - magicians are kept pretty busy nowadays. I am informed that it is chiefly about myself. This is no doubt very flattering, but I hope Miss Clarke will forgive me if I am not entirely overwhelmed. I was, after all, the model for the hero of one of Lord Byron⿿s recent poems.*
As for Miss Clarke herself she is a lady not in the first flush of youth. She is the eldest daughter of a clergyman in the north of England - a most respectable, silver-haired old person, with a fund of knowledge upon obscure points of Church History and sporting events.
Miss Clarke's accomplishments are, I am sorry to say, paltry. She does not play any instrument - or sing much. She does not dance. She cannot draw at all. She has only a few words of German. Her Italian is halting and muddled, and entirely incomprehensible to a native of that country. She thinks she would like to embroider, but has never actually tried (so that we must add idleness to the list of her faults). Were she a young woman, one might suppose all this to have been caused by a faulty education, but at her advanced age, the blame, I fear, must be all her own.
I do not think her pretty. She has one admirer - a certain Dr Greenland, a graduate of Oxford University, but, as he is a dwarfish, bandy-legged sort of person, we cannot suppose his standard of beauty to be particularly high. The last time I had the honour of seeing her, she wore pink shoes - a deplorable affectation.
* Manfred by Lord Byron, 1816
© Susanna Clarke 2004
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"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question.
"I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentlemen never could."
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