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Here are the quotations for this week (February 19th to 25th): 1. A yellow and brown streak glided from the purple rustling stems to the bank, stretched its neck to the water, drank, and lay still - a big cobra with fixed lidless eyes… …'Let him live out his life.' The coiled thing hissed and half opened its hood. 'May thy release come soon, brother.'…He passed within a foot of the cobra's poised head. It flattened itself among the dusty coils… 2. I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man's fall, and that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up trouser legs. 3. The young man felt inside … with his stick, and slung out a snake, which he named, balanced on the wire. The body dropped raspingly on the dry grass at the edge of the moat, and recovered itself like coiled lightning, its head already set, and in cocked watch towards the man. He half kicked towards it with his shoed foot. It half struck back, showing its death-coloured mouth, and sank back into its coils, cursing a little. The sources of last week’s extracts (February 12h to 18th) are as follows: 1. (…if she said what you said I said she said, its just the same as if I said what she said she said…) This is from "The Beginning of the Armadilloes" in Just So Stories. 2. (…He took the Elephant - All-the Elephant-there-was - and said, 'Play at being an Elephant, and All-the Elephant-there-was played…) This is from "The Crab that Played with the Sea" in Just So Stories. 3. (…he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the cannas and the heavy-scented ginger-plants…) This is from "The Butterfly that Stamped" in Just So Stories. Good wishes to all John R