The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps

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Michel Faber. The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps

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So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch’d me from the past …

Tennyson, ‘In Memoriam’

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‘Antiquity is exciting,’ she said. ‘It’s good that people are willing to come a long way to see it. They walk up these stone stairs towards that abbey, and they feel they’re literally following in the footsteps of medieval monks and ancient kings. They see those turrets poking up over the headland, and it takes them back eight hundred years …’

‘Ah, but that thing up there isn’t the real Whitby Abbey, is it? It’s a reconstruction: some tourist body’s idea of what a medieval abbey should look like.’

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