Art

Underappreciated element of the medieval romances is the way they sometimes verge on surrealist nightmare. The world is basically incomprehensible and generally hostile. Spinning castles of glass, dead knights who war by moonlight, the country an empty place populated by horrors

South African poet, academic and political activist, Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile, on a television show by Dr Maya Angelou in 1968. https://t.co/hhs2ZIrICT