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The Duke of Beaufort

from Dramatic, Grim and Humorous by Sister Ursuline

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"The Shuttlecock: An Exposition”

Beaufort, that bloviating buffoon, emerging from the parlour at noon to rouse the guests, and ready the court for games in the saloon.

“The fair shuttlecock!”he said, chin collapsing into navel,“is hand-fitted with six and ten of the finest feathers from the left wing of the gander, two weeks before the Summer moult. No more and no less than.”

He swung his battledore in a wanton ecstasy, feathered projectile whining through the air.

“No toys on a Sunday!”he would cry, his unbecoming behaviour reaching new lows as he bent to pick flowers in the park.

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from Dramatic, Grim and Humorous, released September 15, 2015
Cello, vocals: Sister Ursuline

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Sister Ursuline Sydney, Australia

Sister Ursuline is a Sydney-based singer-songwriter and cellist. Sonic historian and “found-object artist of musical influences,” she draws on historical sources and folk stories to create otherworldly narrative songs: asylum-bound nuns, shape-shifting witches and iron-willed aristocrats inhabit “echoing, off-kilter tale[s]… of madness, illness, obsession and suffering…” ... more

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