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Mercury

By: D H Lawrence
Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe
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Summary

Lawrence uses the story of a storm and the deaths it causes to revive the feelings for (if not an actual belief in) the old gods, in this case Mercury whose shrine is ignored by the tourists but who takes his revenge.

©2007 Alan Avery (P)2022 Alan Avery
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