Here is our latest set of quotations:
1. ...'They clawed, they slapped, they fled, leaving behind them a trophy of
banners and brasses crudely arranged round the big drum. Then that end of
the street also shut its windows, and the village, stripped of life, lay
round me like a reef at low tide ...'
2. ...he heard a sound as though all the earth were humming. Then he ran as
he had never run in his life before, spurned aside one - two - three of the
piles of stones into the dark sweet-smelling gullies; heard a roar like the
roar of the sea in a cave, saw with the tail of his eye the air grow dark
behind him ...
3. ... the old Queen cried the swarming cry, which to a bee of good blood
should be what the trumpet was to Job's war-horse. In spite of her immense
age it rang between the canyon-like frames as a pibroch rings in a mountain
pass...and the broad-winged drones, burly and eager, ended it on one
nerve-thrilling outbreak of bugles: 'La Reine le veult ! Swarm ! Swar-rm !
Swar-r-rm !'...
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And here - as a number of people have pointed out - are the sources of last
week's quotations (Feb 13th to 19th):
1. ...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... This is from 'Below the Mill Dam' in 'Traffics and
Discoveries'.
2. ... 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... This is from 'Friendly Brook' in
'A Diversity of Creatures'.
3. ... 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... This is from 'The Bridge Builders' in 'The Day's Work'.
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All good wishes, John Radcliffe
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