Here are the quotations for this week May 18th to 24th:
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…
The sources of last week's extracts (May 11th to 17th) were ass follows:
1. (...The Mullah sprang to his feet, glaring with withered eyeballs at the
drawn death he could not see...) This is from "The Head of the District" in
Life's Handicap.
2. (...It seems to them that they stood through the days and nights slowly
sliding a bar backwards and forwards through a white glow...) This is from
"The Devil and the Deep Sea" in The Day's Work.
3. (...I looked on either side of the deep fireplace, and found but a
half-charred hedge-stake with which I punched a black log into flame...)
This is from "They" in Traffics and Discoveries.
Good wishes to all
John R
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