
Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
You interview (2006)
Context: I live in Victorian Gothic castle in Killiney that I was so bold as to rename Manderley, because Daphne du Maurier 's Rebecca is one of my favourite books.... People have this image of me as an ethereal Lady of Shalott, floating across the battlements, but it's a very small castle as castles go — with no big ballrooms... I don't write my music in my home, only in the studio; I want as normal life as possible at home, with dinner parties and entertaining.
Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Source: Medieval castles (2005), Ch. 1 : The Great Tower : Norman and Early Plantagenet Castles
“The mirror cracked from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.”
Pt. III, st. 5
The Lady of Shalott (1832)
Context: She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She looked down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror cracked from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.
“You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 409.
Source: Medieval castles (2005), Ch. 4 : The Castle as Symbol and Palace