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    Leaping the moat

    Apr 17, 2020 3 minutes
    BY MARGARET ATWOOD
    PHOTOGRAPH BY ARDEN WRAY

    O YOU THINK YOU REMEMBER A MOVIE IN WHICH a knight gallops toward a castle just as its drawbridge is going up, and his white horse jumps the moat in one glorious airborne leap? I could picture it too, but when I went looking for this image on the Internet, all I could find was a couple of cars sailing over rivers via lift bridges and the Pink Panther detective flailing around in the murky water, having missed.

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