Here are the quotations for next week (Octobe 27th to November 2nd) :
1. He saw perspectives of heads - gunshot wounds - seen from above and a
little behind, as they'd lie on the tables; with the pad over their mouths,
but they still all accused him of murder. On off-nights he had orderlies
whispering to him to wake up and give some poor beggar a chance to live.
Then they'd waggle his foot, and he'd wake up grateful for the pain, and
change the dressings. His foot was in a filthy state.
2. He coughed, and as he drew breath, his pain broke through all the drugs,
and the outcry filled the room .a full, high, affected voice, unheard for a
generation, accompanied, as it seemed, the clamour of a beast in agony,
saying: 'I wish to God someone would stop that old swine howling down there
!
3. She was choking with her throat; had rushed to the window for air; had
near pitched out, and in catching at the window bars had cut her hand. Over
and over she made this clear to the intent Baxter. Then she turned on her
sister, and tongue-lashed her savagely...
The sources of this week's quotations (October 20th to 26th) are as follows:
1. (...But though we were dead-tired, we did not forget to go to the Boy's
rooms and put away his revolver with the proper amount of cartridges in the
pouch...)
This is from 'Thrown Away' in "Plain Tales from the Hills".
2. ( ...'The exploded shell of an old brown cartridge dropped out of one of
the pockets and rolled at my feet...') This is from 'The Strange Ride of
Morrowbie Jukes' from "Wee Willie Winkie".
3. ( '...the long slugs thay they chew in their teeth came floppin' among
the rocks like tree-toads of a hot night...') This is from 'Love o' Women'
in 'Many Inventions'.
Good wishes to all, John Radcliffe
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