Here are the quotations for next week, November 3rd to 9th:
1. 'He held up one of his big hands. "Gentlemen," he says - slow he spoke,
but his voice carried far - "I have to think of our country. Let me assure
you that the treaty with Great Britain will be made even though every city
in the Union burn me in effigy."...
2. '...you won't decline. You'll hang on to your two nice red-strapped axles
and your new machine-moulded pinions like - a - like a leech on a lily stem
! There's centuries of work in your old bones if you'd only apply yourself
to it' ...
'It is a matter on which it would be exceedingly ill-advised to form a hasty
or a premature conclusion. I will give it my most careful consideration...'
3. 'But he hadn't really done anything when you knew him, had he ?' ...
(he) pointed to the scars and scrapes left by Cattiwow's great log. 'You
tell me that that good ship's timber never done nothing against winds and
weathers since her upspringing, and I'll confess ye that young Frankie never
done nothing neither...'
The sources of this week's extracts (October 27th to November 2nd) are as
follows:
1. (...He saw perspectives of heads - gunshot wounds - seen from above and
a little behind, as they'd lie on the tables...) This is from 'The Tender
Achilles' in 'Limits and Renewals'.
2. (...He coughed, and as he drew breath, his pain broke through all the
drugs...) This is from 'Dayspring Mishandled' in 'Limits and Renewals'.
3. (...She was choking with her throat; had rushed to the window for air;
had near pitched out...) This is from 'The House Surgeon' in 'Actions and
Reactions'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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