“ […] We’ll get the elk and the deer and the rocks in our own picture-skew way, won’t we, Ron?” “If you mean ‘picturesque’ I’d say that you are quite right. […] ”

The red dragon had already been in intermittent use for centuries as a device for a general, a pen-dragon, a 'head-leader' in Celtic, and it was strongly associated with the name of Cadwallader, the last Celt to rule Britain.

Although the sestina is of medieval French origin, attributed to Arnaut Daniel in the late twelfth century and used by other Gallic poets and by Italians including Petrarch and Dante (from whom it received its Italian name), […]

These cliffs, I may remark, are basaltic, and therefore plutonic.