Three questions for this week (July 4th-10th)
1. Who was Larry Tighe and what was his real first name ?
2. What was Keller's profession ?
3. What is 'a gondiment and not a fluid'?
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Last week's quotations (June 27-July 3)
As several colleagues have swiftly pointed out, these are the sources of
last week's quotations:
1. '...The man was speechless with laughter - honest craftsman's mirth, the
first time I'd ever seen him laugh. You know the mirth that cuts off the
very breath, while ye stamp and snatch at the short ribs ?...' is from ‘The
Wrong Thing' in 'Rewards and Fairies'. Benedetto, who hates Harry Dawe for
his skill as a craftsman, had planned to cut his throat. But when he hears
how Harry has been knighted, with a rusty sword, not for his craftsmanship,
but simply for saving the King trouble, his hatred dissolves in laughter.
2. '...I was on my knees beating my forehead against the back of a
prie-Dieu, when we heard, above all, the laugh of Faunus himself - the dear,
natural voice ... rich with innocent delight, crying: "But do it again! If
you love me, Uncle ...do it again! ...' is from ‘The Miracle of Saint
Jubanus', in 'Limits and Renewals' the laughter is from Martin Ballard, a
young sad shell-shocked Frenchman, who has been jolted back into the joy of
life by the hilarious sight of a man in church with his beard caught in an
umbrella.
3. ‘...we hurried after them, for they were running unsteadily, squeaking
like rabbits as they ran. We overtook them in a little nut wood half a mile
up the road, where they had turned aside, and were rolling...'is from ‘The
Puzzler' in 'Actions and Reactions'; the narrator and his friend
Penfentenyou have discovered three distinguished friends engaged in a
schoolboy prank to see if a monkey would be puzzled by a Monkey Puzzle tree.
They escape the wrath of the woman who catches them in the act by
Pentfentenyou's presence of mind. As they flee laughter overtakes them.
John R
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