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Here are the quotations for next week, (Apr 27th to May 3rd) 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 this week’s extracts are as follows: 1. (‘…They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs…’) This is from "Kaa's Hunting" in The Jungle Book. 2. (‘…He pointed them to shining goals, with fingers which smudged out all radiance on all horizons. He profaned the most secret places of their souls…’) This is from "The Flag of their Country" in Stalky & Co. 3. (‘…'Tell them, oh ! tell the poor serfs not to be afraid of me. Tell them I come to redress their wrongs…’) This is from "Little Foxes" in Actions and Reactions. Good wishes to all, John R _________________________________________________________________ Surf together with new Shared Browsing http://join.msn.com/?page=features/browse&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=74&DI=1059 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/mobile