Here are the quotations for the coming week (July 31st to August 6th):
1. There are not many happinesses so complete as those that are snatched
under the shadow of the sword. They sat together and laughed, calling each
other openly by every pet name that could move the wrath of the gods. The
city below them was locked up in its own torments.
2. '…I went, crying like a jackal, to the appointed place which was near
the byre of the headman's house. But my love was already there, weeping.
She feared that the flood had swept my hut at the Barwhi Ford. When I came
softly through the ankle-deep water, She thought it was a ghost, and would
have fled, but I put my arms round her …'
3. Janki Meah took a second wife - a girl of the Jolaha main stock of the
Meahs, and singularly beautiful. Janki Meah could not see her beauty;
wherefore he took her on trust, and forbade her to go down the pit. He had
not worked for thirty years in the dark without knowing that the pit was
no place for pretty women.
The sources of last week’s extracts (July 24th to 30th) are as follows:
(...there were shields of lacquer, of tortoise-shell and rhinoceros hide,
strapped and bossed with red gold…) This is from "The King's Ankus" in
The Second Jungle Book.
(…'It blazed with the dull red of the ruby, the angry green of the
emerald, the cold blue of the sapphire…) This is from The Naulahka
(…'First are two flawed sapphires - one of two ruttees and one of four, as
I should judge…’) This is from Kim
You may wish to note that in the NRG we have recently published John
McGivering’s notes on the eighth and nfinal episode of The Story of the
Gadsbys, and notes by Lisa Lewis on “The Elephant’s Child”.
Good wishes to all
John R
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