Here are the quotations for the coming week (21st to 27th Jan). Like the
poem of the week on the web-site, they are all related to the Press.
1. …Here, under the guidance of the inky apprentice, he had learned to find
his way more or less circuitously about the case, and considered himself an
expert compositor.
The…paper in its locked formes lay on a stone-topped table, a proof by the
side…With a mallet and a pair of tweezers, he knocked out mysterious wedges
of wood that released the forme, picked a letter here and inserted a letter
there, reading as he went along and stopping much to chuckle over his own
contributions…
2. Keller was insolent with joy. He was going to cable from Southampton to
the New York World, mail his account to America on the same day, paralyse
London with his three columns of loosely knitted headlines, and generally
efface the earth. 'You'll see how I work a big scoop when I get it', he
said.
'Is this your first visit to England ?' I asked.
'Yes', said he…
3. ...It was a shade cooler in the press-room than the office, so I sat
there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars hooted at the
windows, and the all but naked compositors wiped the sweat from their
foreheads and called for water…There was no special reason beyond the heat
and worry to make tension, but, as the clock hands crept up to three
o'clock, and the machines swung their flywheels two or three times to see
that all was in order before I said the word that would set them off, I
could have shrieked aloud…
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The sources of this week's quotations (14th to 20th January) are as follows:
1. 'In the matter of a Private'
2. 'Black Jack'
3. 'With the Main Guard'
All good wishes, John R
All are from 'Soldiers Three
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