Here are the quotations for this week (April 2nd to 8th):
1. ..'Arry come forth e'en a'most 'imself again - na'un hurt outside ner
in of him. I nigh fell on me knees in de wash-house when Bessie was up
street. "I've got ye now, my man", I says. "You'll take your good from me
'thout knowin' it till my life's end. O God send me long to live for
'Arry's sake" I says...'
2. '...There wasn't much I could do, except bury 'em. There'd been a bit
of a thunderstorm in the teak, you see, and they were both stone dead and
black as charcoal...'
3. ...The dog's throat twitched,his body stiffened and shook as though he
were going to have a fit. Then he came back with a visible wrench to his
unwinking watch.
'Always so?' she whispered.
'Always', I replied...
The sources of the last week’s extracts (March 26th to April 1st) are as
follows:
1. (…inch by inch, the untempered heat crept into the heart of the Jungle,
turning it yellow, brown, and at last black…) This is from "How Fear
Came" in The Second Jungle Book.
2. (…Then came the Rains with a roar, and the rukh was blotted out in
fetch after fetch of warm mist…) This is from "In the Rukh" in Many
Inventions.
3. (…(he) could see the tops of the trees lying all speckled and furry
under the moonlight for miles and miles…) This is from "Toomai of the
Elephants" in The Jungle Book.
Good wishes to all, John R
PS In the NRG we are in the process of publishing a series of papers by
Julian Moore on the political background to some of the poems collected in
The Years Between. The first three are "Gehazi", "The Holy War", and
"Mesopotamia"
We have also just published notes by John McGivering on "The Mutiny of the
Mavericks", the eighth story in Life's Handicap
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