I'm reading The Lost Princess by #GeorgeMacDonald and in one paragraph he starts off by saying that there is a fire made of fir-wood and by the end of the paragraph refers to it as a peat fire.
#ChatGPT informs me that fir-wood is fast burning and was often used in #Scotland to get a fire started while peat was long-burning and thus would be added to the fire thereafter.
It seems logical, but ChatGPT has also struggled to provide me with clear references to this information.
Curious if anyone is familiar with whether this was/is so? I'd like something to depend upon beyond the words of generative AI. 😂
... or if you prefer your reading to be digital, there's the Inklings-Jahrbuch (Yearbook of the German Inklings Society) for you! The 2005 Yearbook on #GeorgeMacDonald is conveniently available in #OpenAccess in our very own online repository, The Stacks!
https://thestacks.libaac.de/collections/6d950d6e-5b94-4362-8269-fb3b7f3304f4
It's the 200th birthday of #ScottishWriter George MacDonald, famous for his very influential Victorian fantasy texts!
Find many of his primary works as well as lots of secondary #LiteraryStudies texts on him in our collection
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean."
"Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?" asked the princess, a little offended.
-George MacDonald, 'The Princess and the Goblin'
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Borderlands: George MacDonald Between Worlds
George MacDonald Bicentenary Conference, St Andrews, 8–9 Nov
“MacDonald plays with & transgresses boundaries between the quotidian & the fantastical, theology & literature, home & abroad, secular & sacred, life & death.”
Registration now open – early bird prices available until 30 Sep
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George MacDonald, the Scottish father of fantasy literature, was born 200 years ago in Huntly: his work influenced Tolkien, CS Lewis & others. Orb’s Bookshop is coordinating a celebration of MacDonald in tandem with a Scottish Festival of Illustration
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George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a major figure in the history of #fantasy literature. His 200th anniversary is a focus of this year’s Scottish Illustration Festival, which will be held in MacDonald’s birthplace of Huntly. Andrew Redmond Barr creates a new map of the town:
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https://andrewrbarr.substack.com/p/remembering-scotlands-father-of-fantasy
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