A lovely phrase. But where did it come from? A book, likely enough. But from what era? One hears this kind of reference from England … and there is a fascination with the desolation of the moors in Victorian writing. Could it be from Sherlock Holmes? The Hound of the Baskervilles? Yes! And I am reading the 1987 Folio Edition with rather unique lino-cuts by Edward Bawden. Sadly, Bawden passed on just a few years after the printing. Gory loved his work, btw. Reading the first chapter, I was re-introduced to the “penang lawyer“, in this case, belonging to the mysterious Dr. Mortimer. I must search for one next time I visit London.
Buzzography 