Here are the quotations for this weel (Sept 30th to Nov 5th):
1. ... I hear a thud in the engine-room. Then the noise of
machinery falling down—like fire-irons—and then two most awful yells. They’re
more like hoots, and I know—I know while I listen—that it means that two men
have died as they hooted. It was their last breath hooting out of them—in most
awful pain. Do you understand?’
2. ‘Now, you wouldn’t think,
would you’—he glanced off the book toward my wildly swaying dressing-gown on the
door—‘that I’ve been seeing things for the last half-hour? ’Fact is, I’m just on
the edge of ’em, skating on thin ice round the corner—nor’east as near as
nothing—where that dog’s looking at me.’
3. An’ then I saw—I tell
you I saw—Auntie Armine herself standin’ by the old dressin’station door where
first I’d thought I’d seen her. He was lookin’ at ’er an’ she was lookin’ at
him. I saw it, an’ me soul turned over inside me because—because it knocked out
everything I’d believed in.
The sources of last week's quotations (Sep 23rd to 29th) are as
follows:
1. (''...You'll be seein' Mr Godsoe soon ? …Well then, tell him from
me that I expect to be through with my little trouble by the twenty-first of
next month,..") This is from "A Madonna of the Trenches" in Debits and
Credits.
2. ('…Come spring , I 'ad something else to rage for. I'd growed a
nasty little weepin' boil, like, on me shin, just above the boot-top...')
This is from "The Wish House" in A Diversity of Creatures.
3. (...In the middle of his singing he felt the cold touch of the
Crab's claw on the apple of his throat...) This is from "Th4e Children of the
Zodiac" in Many Inventions.
In the New Readers' Guide we have just pun;ished nnotes on "Morning Song in
the Jungle".
Good wishes to all
John R
