Muscular/crepuscular - can't help feeling a limerick coming on!
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Thank you for the Mikhail. So that’s what the look like. The nickname had made me think of a great hulking bull, Luke Detmold’s Rama.
I will do what I can with crepuscular. Bizarre that it should rhyme with muscular.
Jan
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On 7 Apr 2024, at 16:37, Harish Trivedi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Dear Jan
Apologies for my puerile prank -- but I was so thrilled to get all the three passages right which I have hardly ever done before! And I suppose only because "Kim" occurs directly in each one of them!
I think a subconscious link might have been that the semi-forest in Delhi where the French TV journalists interviewed me about The Jungle Book last Thursday had only one wild animal to be seen in numbers -- the nilgai. Which is the epithet Kipling repeatedly uses (spelt "Nilghai", with K's usual "h" error) to refer to an English journalist in the The Light that Failed. (He was "the chiefest, as he was the hugest, of the war correspondents...", Ch. 4.)
Now that you have done eponymously, how about crepuscular? Or velleity? It took me years to offload those.
Best wishes to all.
Harish
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 15:15, Janet Montefiore <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
They are from the same book, but eponymously: not The Light That Failed.
( I think this is the first time I have ever used that adverb in all my 75 years. I ought to have a wish, no? )
Jan
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So, aren't all the three passages from the same book -- The Light that Failed?
Incidentally, I was interviewed here in Delhi (in a semi-forest) by a French TV channel, about The Jungle Book. Is that the all-time best-seller of all Kipling's books, and probably the most enduring?
Harish Trivedi
On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 12:34, John Radcliffe <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Sent: 01 April 2024 19:00
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Subject: Quotations
More from India
1. The huge, mouse-coloured Brahminee bull of the ward was shouldering his way through the many-coloured crowd, a stolen plantain hanging out of his mouth. He headed straight for the shop, well knowing his privileges as a sacred beast, lowered his head, and puffed heavily along the line of baskets ere making his choice. Up flew Kim’s hard little heel and caught him on his moist blue nose. He snorted indignantly, and walked away across the tram rails, his hump quivering with rage.
2. Kim pitched it at random. It fell short and crashed into fifty pieces, while the water dripped through the rough veranda boarding.
“I said it would break.” “All one. Look at it. Look at the largest piece.” … Kim looked intently; Lurgan Sahib laid one hand gently on the nape of the neck, stroked it twice or thrice, and whispered: “Look! It shall come to life again …
3. It was too late. Before Kim could ward him off, the Russian struck the old man full on the face. Next instant he was rolling over and over down hill with Kim at his throat. The blow had waked every unknown Irish devil in the boy’s blood, and the sudden fall of his enemy did the rest.
The sources of last week's extracts:
1. (It is curious that no man knows how the rods were straightened. ) This is from “The Devil and the Deep Sea“, collected in The Day’s Work.
The Haliotis, a small iron cargo steamer, has been fishing illegally for pearls in East Indian waters. They were fired on by a local naval vessel, and a shell had wrecked their engines. Here, imprisoned on the ship, they are striving to repair her, and wreak revenge.
2. (Young Ottley jumped into the cab and turned off all the steam he could find} This is from “The Bold Prentice” (1895 – collected in Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides.
Young Ottley is an apprentice in the workshops of one of the biggest Indian railway companies. Like many young men in the age of steam, his ambition is to be an engine-driver.
He makes friends with Olaf Swanson, a notable driver, who has written a manual, his ‘vademecome’, on how to repair damaged locomotives.
One night he is on his way to a rifle competition as a passenger, when one of the cylinders on the train’s engine blows up. The driver, fearful for his life amidst steam and scalding water, will do nothing. But Young Ottley, mustering the help of a squad of British soldiers, and remembering Olaf’s book, disconnects the wrecked cylinder and takes the train on across Bengal in the darkness, through pouring rain and flood.
3. (The turbines whistle reflectively. From the low-arched expansion-tanks on either side the valves descend pillarwise to the turbine-chests) This is from “With the Night Mail ” (1905) collected in Actions and Reactions.
It is the year 2000, and – powered by ‘Fleury’s Ray’ – a host of aircraft are flying across the world from continent to continent. The story-teller is on board a mail plane, en route from London to Quebec.
Kipling published this story only two years after the first powered flight by the Wright brothers in America.
Good wishes to all
John R
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