Here are the quotations for the cominf week (May
8th to 14th):
1. …The Mullah sprang to his feet, glaring with withered
eyeballs at the drawn death he could not see, and calling down the curses of God
and Mahomed on the tribe. Then began a game of blind man's buff round and
between the fires...
2. …It seems to them that they stood through the days and nights slowly
sliding a bar backwards and forwards through a white glow that was part of the
ship. They remember an intolerable noise in their heads from the walls of the
stoke-hole, and remember being savagely beaten by men whose eyes seemed
asleep... '
3. …"Please do
something with that fire. They won't let me play with it, but I can feel it's
behaving badly. Hit it!"
I looked on either side of the deep fireplace, and
found but a half-charred hedge-stake with which I punched a black log into
flame...
The sources of last week's extracts (May 1st to
7th) are as follows:
1. (...'Hicksey and I were thick as
thieves...') This is from "A Conference of the Powers" in Many
Inventions.
2. ('...They ran as though we was both,
an' we wint into them, baynit an' butt, shrikin' wid laughin'. ' ) This is from
"The Taking of Lungtungpen" in Plain Tales from the Hills.
3. (...There was a rush from without,
the short hough-hough of the stabbing spears, and a man on a horse,
followed by thirty or forty others, dashed through,...) This is from
The Light that Failed.
Good wishes to all
John R
