The quotations for the coming week (April 29th to May 5th) are all to do
with childhood:
1. …And the little girl-daughter said, 'This is a good nut that I am eating.
If you choose I will make a magic and I will give you this pair of scissors,
very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat coconuts like
this all day long when you come up from the Sea to the land …'
2. …'I am the Colonel Sahib's son, and my order is that you go at once. You
black men are frightening the Miss Sahib. One of you must run into
cantonments and take the news that the Miss Sahib has hurt herself, and that
the Colonel's son is here with her…'
3. …'I went forward; but I cannot say whither I went, and there was no more
food for myself or the sister. And upon a hot night, she weeping and calling
for food, we came to a well, and I bade her sit upon the kerb, and thrust
her in, for, in truth, she could not see; and it is better to die than to
starve…'
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This week's quotations (April 22nd to 28th), as a number of people have
pointed out, were all from the Second Jungle Book:
1. '…It was a perfect white night, as they call it...' - 'The Spring
Running'
2. '...His back view was immensely respectable...' - 'The Undertakers'
3. '...The length of the gorge was hung ... with black shimmery velvet
curtains..' - 'Red Dog'
Good wishes to all, John R.
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