Here are the quotations for this week (August 14th to 20th):
1. ...The orator urged us to arise in our might, burst our prison doors
and break our fetters...Next he demanded that every matter of daily life,
including most of the physical functions, should be submitted for decision
at any time of the week, month, or year to, I gathered, anyone who
happened to be passing by or residing within a certain radius, and that
everybody should abandon his concerns to settle the matter …by describing
crosses on pieces of paper…
2. 'I'm a sister to all in affliction - just a working sister. My heart
bled for you beneath your burden…Work's the essence of life; but to expend
precious unreturning vitality and real labour against imaginary danger -
that is heartbreakingly absurd! If I can only teach a - a little
toleration - a little ordinary kindness…'
3. '…I came to you from Kansas, wavin' the tail o' friendship to all and
sundry, an' in the name of the uncounted millions o' pure-minded,
high-toned horses now struggling towards the light of freedom, I say to
you, rub noses with us in our sacred and holy cause. The power is yourn.
Without you, I say, man the Oppressor cannot mnove himself form place to
place. Without you he cannot reap, he cannot sow, he cannot plough'…
The sources of last week’s extracts (August 7th to 13th) are as follows:
1. (…Despair upon despair, misery upon misery, fear after fear, each
causing their distinct and separate woe…) This is from "The House
Surgeon" in Actions and Reactions.
2. (…For the pity of God come over to me, Hafiz Ullah ! My father slew
ten of them. Come over !') This is from "The Lost Legion" in Many
Inventions.
3. (…our dead of the Boer War, flickering and reforming as the horizon
flickered in the heat; the galloping feet of a single horse..) This is
from Something of Myself
Good wishes to all
John R
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