Here are the quotations for next week (November
28th to Dec 4th):
1. Just when the silence was getting unendurable, the body turned over
and rolled away from the basin to the side of the room, where it lay stomach-up.
There was a faint 'plop' from the basin - exactly like the noise a fish makes
when it takes a fly - and the green light in the centre revived. I looked in the
basin, and saw, bobbing in the water, the dried shrivelled black head of a
native baby - open eyes, open mouth, and shaved scalp …
2.
We could hear him moving about his own
room, but there was no light there. Presently from the room came the long-drawn
howl of a wolf. People write and talk lightly of blood running cold and hair
standing up and things of that kind. Both sensations are too horrible to be
trifled with. My heart stopped as though a knife had been driven through it, and
Strickland turned as white as the table-cloth. The howl was repeated, and was
answered by another howl far across the fields...
3. I was actually lying on my chest leaning over the mouth of a well so
deep I could scarcely see the water in it. There were things in the water -
black things - and the water was black as pitch with blue scum atop. The
laughing sound came from the noise of a little spring, spouting half-way down
one side of the well...One thing turned over on its back, as I watched, and
drifted round and round the circle of the mossy brickwork with a hand and half
an arm held clear of the water in a stiff and horrible flourish …
The sources of last week's extracts (November 21st to
27th) , as a number of people have pointed out, are:
1. (...For me this land, that
sea, these airs, those folk and fields suffice...) This is from "The Roman Centurion's
Song".
2. (...At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and
listen,/
You will hear the feet of the Wind ...) This is
from '"The Dawn Wind".
3. (...`Twas not while England’s sword unsheathed
Put half a
world to flight...) This is the first verse of "The
American Rebellion".
Good wishes to all, John R
PS You may be interested to know that in the past
week we have added notes on "Proofs of Holy Writ" and "The God from the Machine"
to the New Readers' Guide. The full text of the first 184 issues of
the KJ, up to December 1972 are now up on the site, with a search engine which
enables you to search for words or phrases.