The lonely sunsets flare forlorn / Down valleys dreadly desolate;

And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

We pass Much and Little Marcle, and Dymock, all ancient sounding and through the waking up heart of the half-timbered market town of of Ledbury, dating to the Doomsday Book.

If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing.