Here are this week's quotations (August 8th to 15th)
1. ‘... I have seen all the dead seasons, and the great trees and the old
elephants, and the rocks that were bare and sharp-pointed ere the moss grew.
Art thou still alive ...’
2. ...they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones, and flavoured with wild
garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed with wild rice and wild
fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow bones of wild oxen; and wild
cherries, and wild grenadillas...
3. ...it was laid out like a map at his feet. He could see the evening
gatherings on the threshing-floors, because that was the only level ground;
could see the wonderful un-named green of the young rice, the indigo blues
of the Indian corn; the dock-like patches of buck-wheat, and its season the
red bloom of the amaranth...
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Here are the sources of the last set of quotations: (August 1st to 8th) as a
number of members have pointed out.
1. ...the first words of the Magnificat were built up in gold washed with
red-lac for a background to the Virgin’s hardly yet fired halo... is from
'The Eye of Allah' in Debits and Credits.
2. '...He showed me a battered and mutilated Vulgate of 1485, patched up the
back with bits of legal parchments, which he had bought for thirty-five
shillings...' is from 'Dayspring Mishandled' from Limits and Renewals.
3. ‘...Then he sets me to draft out a pair of iron gates, to take, as he
said, the taste of my naughty dolphins out of my mouth...' is from 'The
Wrong Thing' in Rewards and Fairies.
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All contributions gratefully received
John Radcliffe
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