The Chalk Pit: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 9

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Continue along the waymarked path for a further 750m, initially on enclosed paths and finally across a meadow. On the far side go out through a gate and turn left onto a road (Pilgrims Way West). Follow this main road past Broughton Manor ? and across several branches of the River Darent, rejoining the Main Walk where it becomes Otford's High Street. The first speaker knows exactly what the second is talking about and for the reason of their “free thought, free love” does not want to get involved with them. They are unencumbered in a way that bothers this speaker and even this short story about them sets him on edge.

Adapted from Notes From Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds by Helen Gordon, published by Profile and available at guardianbookshop.com Are you a resident affected by these issues? Join the conversation with other Surrey readers here . Read More Related Articles The speaker explains that the reason the place is empty, but also has the feeling that it very recently wasn’t. It is as if “just before / It was not empty, silent, still, but full” instead. He isn’t sure what kind of life would’ve been there, but it is perhaps “tragical” or of a tragic nature. The first speaker concludes his description by asking the second if “anything unusual” has “happened here”. The second speaker does have an answer, and that is no. It’s been empty for a “century” he adds. There is nothing that was “just” happening, even though the first speaker senses there was.

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Nothing is said but in passing it speaks of the differences perhaps society places on people's lives.

Ley responded by ending his slander action, saying he’d accept McDonald’s apology officially as soon as he officially withdrew the court petition. But McDonald had a fit of remorse. The strangeness of this exchange and the experience the first speaker alone seems to be having, is expanded when he says that “another place,” real or imaginary, “may have combined with” the chalk-pit they see in front of them. St Bartholomew, Otford dates from the 11 thC; construction began in 1060 with the tower being added in around 1185. It contains a large marble memorial to Charles and David Polhill, descendants of Oliver Cromwell.There is a very clever use of imagery in these lines. By describing the land as “empty” but at the same time as somehow “full”, a reader is left to fill in the blanks. This creates an uneasy feeling, one that is foreboding and might foreshadow some revelation down the line. A simile is a comparison between two unlike things that uses the words “like” or “as”. A poet uses this kind of figurative language to say that one thing is similar to another, not like metaphor, that it “is” another. For instance, line forty-nine. It reads: “And hair brown as a thrush or as a nut”. On postcards and tea towels, images of chalk landscapes perform a particular version of Englishness. “Chalk has quite a central place in England’s cultural history – the white cliffs of Dover and all that stuff,” Farrant said. “And yet most people know nothing about what it is and how it formed.”