I take my title from one of the first English anthologies, A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions, edited by one T(homas) P(roctor) and published in 1578. There have been many since, and I own, or have owned, a gaggle, a pride, a murder, a quiver of the unwieldy things. A couple I especially cherish are […]

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