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A Cloke of Prophecy: Fish of Prodigal Size
“Gentlemen, that was the cardinal’s cat.”
“You were the boy at Compiègne?”
He has eaten artichokes and said they are his favourite thing in the world
The Cardinal on the Cromwell Cloke
Like all the other witnesses, he swirls his cloak about him
Cut out and embroidered just for me
The ghosts of other lives you might have led
Helen Barre’s Needle: The act of stitching in Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy
‘Where does the fellow spring from?’
“It’s useful to have the evidence stitched together.”
“Where’s my orange coat? I used to have an orange coat.”
“I have a very large ledger. A huge filing system.”
“If I follow the river is that as good as anything?”
“I always knew embroidery would get her into trouble.”
We have patched and mended till we can do no more
“All these things, these things we have now”
Something in the act of becoming
“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”