This week's quotations (Dec 24th to 30th) are as follows:
1. ...'He told me' he said suddenly, ' that my home address was Jerusalem.
You heard that ?'
'But it was the tone - the tone,' Olyett cried.
…' "Is that a dressing-gown or an ulster you're supposed to be wearing ?"
You heard that ?…"And I suppose you hadn't time to brush your hair either ?"
You heard that?…Now you hear !' His voice filled the coffee-room, then
dropped to a whisper as dreadful as a surgeon's before an operation...
2. ...Mrs Bellamy opened the window and spoke. It appears that she had only
charged for damage to the bicycle, not for the entire machine which Mr
Lingnam was ruthlessly gleaning, spoke by spoke, from the highway, and
cramming into the slack of the hood. At last, he answered, and I have never
seen a man foam at the mouth before. 'If you don't stop, I shall come into
your house - in this car - and drive upstairs and - kill you !'...
3. ...The stuff was getting in its work. Bluey, white, and blue again rolled
over the navvy's face in waves, till all settled to one rich clay-bank
yellow, and - that fell which fell.
I thought of the blowing up of Hell Gate; of the geysers in Yellowstone
Park; of Jonah and his whale; but the lively original, as I watched it
foreshortened from above, exceeded all these things…His right hand was upon
the doctor's collar, so that the two shook to one paroxysm, pendulums
vibrating together, while I, apart, shook with them...
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The sources of last week's quotations (December 17th to 23rd) were as
follows:
1. 'Rikki Tikki Tavi' in 'The Jungle Book'
2. 'Quiquern' in 'The Second Jungle Book'
3. 'The Elephant's Child' in 'The Just So Stories'.
Good wishes for Christmas to all
John R
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