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Here are the quotations for this week, April 8th to 14th. All are to do with 'down under' in celebration of Tome Pinney and Rosalind Kennedy's new book. (see the web-site) 1. 'He ran through the desert; he ran through the mountains; he ran through the salt-pans; he ran through the reed-beds; he ran through the blue gums; he ran through the spinifex; he ran till his front legs ached. He had to !' 2. …trains transferring me, at unholy hours, from one too-exclusive State gauge to another: of enormous skies and primitive refreshment rooms, where I drank hot tea and ate mutton, while now and then a hot wind, like the loo of the Punjab, boomed out of the emptiness. A hard land, it seemed to me, and made harder for themselves by the action of its inhabitants, who - it may have been the climate - always seemed a bit on edge. 3. …'Look here ! From the time that this man Hickmot was twelve years old he'd ridden, driven - what's the word ? - conducted sheep for his father for thousands of miles on end, months an' months at a time, alone with these black fellers that you daren't show the back of your neck to - else they knock your head in. That was all he'd ever done till he joined up. He - he - didn't belong to anything in the world, you understand. And he didn't strike other men as being a - a human being.' __________________________________ The sources of last week's quotations (April 1st to 7th), as a number of people have pointed out, were as follows. 1.'A Conference of the Powers' in 'Many Inventions' 2. 'The Taking of Lung-tung-pen' in 'Plain Tales from the Hills' 3. 'The Light that Failed'. Good wishes to all, John R