Here are the quotations for Feb 13th to 19th
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1. '...There was a solid crash of released waters leaping upon the wheel
more furiously than ever, a grinding of cogs, a hum like the hum of a
hornet, and then the unvisited darkness of the old mill was scattered by
intolerable white light. It threw up every cobweb, every burl and knot in
the beams and the floor ...'
2. ' "I'll have a pook at it", he ses, an' he pooks at it as it comes round
the elber...Then we pulled on the pooker,an' it reared up on eend in the
roosh, an' we guessed what 'twas. 'Cardenly we pulled it into a shaller, an'
it rolled a piece, an' a great old stiff man's arm nigh hit me in the
face...'
3. ... The farther bank was veiled by rain, into which the bridge ran out
and vanished; the spurs upstream were marked by no more than eddies and
spoutings, and downstream the pent river, once freed of her guidelines, had
spread like a sea to the horizon. Then hurried by, rolling in the water,
dead men and oxen together...
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And here, as several people have pointed out, are the sources of our last
set of quotations (Feb 6th to 12th):
1. ...He kept quiet and he mixed with his backgrounds. If there was a lump
of dirt, or a hole in the ground, or what was - was left after anythin' had
happened, it would be Hickmot... This is from 'A Friend of the Family' in
'Debits and Credits'.
2. ... hand froze on hand, and the body with it as they waited for the
horror in the blackness that heralded it... This is from 'In the Same Boat'
in 'A Diversity of Creatures'.
3. ... Our electric lights, set low down in the windows before the
tun-bellied Rosamund jars, flung inward three monstrous daubs of red, blue,
and green... This is from 'Wireless' in Traffics and Discoveries.
Best regards to all, John R
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