I don't know if this is old news on this forum, but I just wanted to share a lovely song I found that mentions Cair Paravel.
* * *
We sailed way on a winter's day
with fate as malleable as clay;
but ships are fallible, I say,
and the nautical, like all things, fades.
And I can recall our caravel:
a little wicker beetle shell
with four fine masts and lateen sails.
its bearings on Cair Paravel.
O my love,
O it was a funny little thing
to be the ones to've seen.
The sight of bridges and balloons
makes calm canaries irritable
they caw and claw all afternoon:
"Catenaries and dirigibles
brace and buoy the living room --
a loom of metal, warp-woof-wimble."
And a thimblesworth of milky moon
can touch hearts larger than a thimble.
O my love,
O it was a funny little thing
to be the ones to've seen
* * *
This song reminds me of Reepicheep. All the thimbles, perhaps.
it's by joanna newsom. she has an abrasive yet strangely beautiful voice, kind of like bob dylan.
here's a review of her album:
