Here are the quotations for the first week of 2001 (January 1st to 7th):
1. ...(he) said to me: "Serve Caesar. You are not canvas I can cut to
advantage at present. But if you serve Caesar you will be obeying at least
some sort of law." He talked as though I were a barbarian. Weak as I was, I
could have snapped his back with my bare hands. I told him so. "I don’t
doubt it," he said. "But that is neither here nor there…what concerns you
now is that, by taking service, you will be rid from the fear that has
ridden you all your life"...
2. ‘...We saw the twinkle of night-fires all along the guard towers, and the
line of the black catapults growing smaller and smaller in the distance. All
these things we knew till we were weary; but that night they seemed very
strange to us, because the next day we knew we were to be their masters.’...
3. ‘...this time he conformed to the man, with inimitable judgement and
temper. He allowed himself to be played into the shadow or the sun, as the
delighted audience demanded. He raged enormously, he feigned defeat; he
despaired in statuesque abandon, and thence flashed into fresh paroxysms of
wrath, but always with the detachment of the true artist who knows he is but
the vessel of an emotion whence others, not he, must drink..."
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The sources of last week's quotations (Dec 24th to 30th) were as follows:
1. 'The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat' in 'A Diversity of
Creatures'.
2. 'The Vortex' in 'A Diversity of Creatures'.
3. 'My Sunday at Home' in 'The Day's Work'.
Warmest good wishes for the New Year, John R
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