Here is the latest set of quotations (April 2nd to 8th)
1. ...the woodways were packed with his knights in armour riding down into
the water-mists ... behind them you could see great castles lifting slow and
splendid on arches of moonshine, with maidens waving their hands at the
windows, which all turned into roaring rivers; and then would come the
darkness of his own young heart wiping out the whole slateful...
2. '...It lay on the marsh like thunder. Men saw their windows ablaze with
the wildfire in the windows after dark; they saw their cattle scatterin' an'
no man scarin'; their sheep flockin' an' no man drivin' ; their horses
latherin' an' no man leadin'; they saw the liddle low green lights more than
ever in the dik sides; they heard the liddle feet patterin' more than ever
round the houses; an' night an' day, day an'night, 'twas all as though they
were bein' creeped up on...'
3. '...I went away to that place where I had seen the magician with the
knife. I lay out two days on the long grass before I ventured among the
trees. I felt my way before me with a stick. I was afraid of the terrible
talking trees. I was afraid of the ghosts in the branches; of the soft
ground under foot; of the red and black waters. I was afraid, above all, of
the change. It came!...'
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The sources of last week's seagoing quotations, as a number of people have
pointed out, were as follows:
1. 'Their Lawful Occasions', in 'Traffics and Discoveries'
2. 'Judson and the Empire', in 'Many Inventions'.
3. 'The Devil and the Deep Sea' in 'The Day's Work'
All good wishes, John R
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