Canigou and Kipling
In a letter to M. Georges Auriol of Perpignan, Rudyard Kipling
wrote: "I came here in search of nothing more than a little sunshine.
But I found Canigou, whom I discovered to be a magician among
mountains, and I submitted myself to his power… I
watch him with wonder and delight. Nothing that he
could do or give birth to would now surprise me,
whether I met Don Quixote himself riding in from
the Spanish side, or all the chivalry of ancient
France watering their horses at his streams, or saw
(which each twilight seems quite possible) gnomes
and kobbolds swarming out of the mines and
tunnels of his flanks."
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