Here are the latest (9-15 Jan) set of quotations:
1. ...There was an old puzzle-map of the World in the house... She unearthed
it again, and put it together of evenings, and cried to herself, and tried
to imagine where her Englishman was. As she had no ideas of distance or
steamboats, her notions were somewhat wild. It would not have made the least
difference had she been perfectly correct; for the Englishman had no
intention of coming back to marry a Hill-girl....
2. ...'I should like to die like the bazar-woman - on a clean cool mat with
a pipe of good stuff between my lips. When I feel I am going, I shall ask
Tsin-Ling for them, and he can draw my sixty rupees a month, fresh and
fresh, as long as he pleases. Then I shall lie back, quiet and comfortable,
and watch the black and red dragons have their last big fight together; and
then...'
3. ...'I went forward; but I cannot say whither I went, and there was no
more food for myself or the sister. And upon a hot night, she weeping and
calling for food, we came to a well, and I bade her sit upon the kerb, and
thrust her in, for, in truth, she could not see; and it is better to die
than to starve ... I would have thrown myself in also, but that she was not
dead, and called to me from the bottom of the well, and I was afraid and
ran' ...'
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As a number of people have pointed out, the sources of last week's
quotations (Jan 2nd to 8th) were as follows:
1. ..'When she was dry, I went doun the shaft-tunnel, an' found she was
leakin' a little through the stuffin'-box, but nothin' to make wark. The
propellor had e'en jarred off, as I knew it must'... is from 'Bread upon the
Waters', in 'The Day's Work'
2. ...The sky behind us whitened as I laboured, and the first dawn drove
down the Channel, tipping the wave-tops with a chill glare... is from 'Their
Lawful Occasions', in 'Traffics and Discoveries'
3. ...'At last he took it into his pore sick head that the ships, and
particularly the steamers that came by, - there wasn't many of them, - made
the streaks, instead of the tides as was natural'... is from 'The Disturber
of Traffic', in 'Many Inventions'.
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All good wishes, John Radcliffe
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