The quotations for next week (July 23-29th) are as follows:
1. …Thanks to the khaki everywhere, the scene was not unlike that which one
might have seen on earth every evening of the old days outside the
refreshment room by the Arch at Victoria Station, when the Army trains
started…
2. …The passengers filed out - they and the waiting crowd devouring each
other with their eyes. Some, misled by a likeness or a half-heard voice,
hurried forward crying a name or even stretching out their arms. To cover
their error, they would pretend they had made no sign and bury themselves
among their uninterested neighbours. As the last passenger came away, a
little moan rose from the assembly…
3. … "They are my own. The old women dream of me, turning in their sleep;
the maids look and listen for me when they go to fill their lotahs by the
river. I walk by the young men waiting within the gates at dusk, and I call
over my shoulder to the white-beards. Ye know, heavenly ones, that I alone
of us walk upon the earth continually, and have no pleasure in our heavens
as long as a green blade springs here, or there are two voices at twilight
in the standing crops. Wise are ye, but ye live far off, forgetting whence
ye came …"
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The sources of last week's quotations (July 16th-22nd) were:
1. Kim
2. 'A Pilgrim's Way'
3. 'Jobson's Amen'
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Good wishes to all, John R
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