Here are the quotations for next week (August 31st to September 6th):
1. .'I can't stand it ! There's nothing on earth creaks like they do.
And—and when it thaws we—we've got to slap them back with a spa-ade!
'Remember those Frenchmen's little boots under the duckboards?'
2. 'He was not clever nor handsome, but he had the eyes of a joyous
faithful dig, and the laugh of Pan himself. And he came back at the
last—blasted, withered, dumb—a ghost that gnawed itself.'
3. ...when he grew better he began to hear Voices—little whispers at
first, growing louder and louder and ending in regular uproars, ordering
him to do certain things. He used to lie there shaking with horror,
because he funked going mad. He wanted to be happy again, in his
garden—like the rest of us.
The sources of this week's extracts (August 24th to 30th) are as follows:
1. (...she threaded her way through the shipping to her berth at the quay
as quietly as a veiled woman slips through a bazaar. ) This is from "The
Manner of Men" in Limits and Renewals.
2. (...Imagine a respectable charwoman in the tights of a ballet dancer
rolling drunk along the streets...) This is from "The Devil and the Deep
Sea " in The Day's Work.
3. (...The low-sided schooner was naturally on most intimate terms with
her surroundings...) This is from Captains Courageous.
In the New Readers' Guid we have recently published notes by Gillian
Sheehan and John McGivering on "The Tender Achilles" and
"Unprofessional", from Limits and Renewals, together with the accompanying
poems.
Good wishes to all, John R
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