Here are the quotations for next week, 9th to 15th February):
1. A yellow and brown streak glided from the purple rustling stems to the
bank, stretched its neck to the water, drank, and lay still - a big cobra
with fixed lidless eyes.
.'Let him live out his life.' The coiled thing hissed and half opened its
hood. 'May thy release come soon, brother.'.He passed within a foot of the
cobra's poised head. It flattened itself among the dusty coils.
2. I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake
you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man's fall, and
that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted
from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up
trouser legs.
3. The young man felt inside . with his stick, and slung out a snake, which
he named, balanced on the wire. The body dropped raspingly on the dry grass
at the edge of the moat, and recovered itself like coiled lightning, its
head already set, and in cocked watch towards the man. He half kicked
towards it with his shoed foot. It half struck back, showing its
death-coloured mouth, and sank back into its coils, cursing a little.
The sources of this week's extracts (Feh 2nd to 8th) were as follows:
All three were from "Just So Stories" "Old Man Kangaroo"
1. '....He stumped and he jumped and he thumped and he bumped...' is from
"How the Whale got his Throat".
2. '...He ran through the desert; he ran through the mountains; he ran
through the salt-pans; he ran through the reed-beds...' is from "Old Man
Kangaroo".
3. '...they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones, and flavoured with
wild garlic and wild pepper...' is from "The Cat that Walked by Himself".
Good wishes to all, John R
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