This does seem to be a key passage for Kipling. I love the
mis-hearing from the Tommy in "Madonna" about Beasts of Officers too
- I bet K heard that at a reunion or the like!
Of course, the amphitheatre at Ephesus dominates the town and the
long imposing avenue that goes down to the port. Does anyone know
whether this was the Wembley Stadium of the period, or the Colosseum
of the East? Or is the beast rather more metaphysical. Did The Book
of Revelations get written in Ephesus?
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Professor Tim Connell
Division of Languages
Room A2.49 College Building
City University, London EC1V OHB
Tel: 020-7477 8265 Fax: 020-7477 8266
Homepage: http://www.city.ac.uk/languages
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