Here are the quotations for the week 6-12th February
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1. '...With his upbringing, you see, there wasn't any subject that any man
knew about that he could open up on. He kept quiet and he mixed with his
backgrounds. If there was a lump of dirt, or a hole in the ground, or what
was - was left after anythin' had happened, it would be Hickmot. That was
all he wanted to be...'
2. ...hand froze on hand, and the body with it as they waited for the horror
in the blackness that heralded it. Yet through the worst Conroy saw, at an
unaccountable distance, one minute glint of light in his night. Thither
would he go and escape his fear...
3. ... Our electric lights, set low down in the windows before the
tun-bellied Rosamund jars, flung inward three monstrous daubs of red, blue,
and green, that broke into kaleidoscopic lights on the faceted knobs of the
drug-drawers, the cut glass scent flagons, and the bulbs of the sparklet
bottles...
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And here, as a number of people have pointed out, are the sources of our
last set of quotations: (Jan 30th to Feb 5th)
1. ..."Malachi, my son, are you well ?" sez I, "for I am not". At that he
trumpeted again till the Pass rang to ut, an' the other elephants tuk it
up... This is from 'My Lord the Elephant' in 'Many Inventions'.
2. ...a rebounding beam had pricked him. He needed only this to unchain his
full strength, for of all things in the Jungle, the wild elephant enraged is
the most wantonly destructive... This is from 'Letting in the Jungle' in
'The Second Jungle Book'.
3. ...an elephant who will not work, and is not tied up, is not quite so
manageable as an eighty-one ton gun loose in a heavy sea-way... This is from
'Moti Guj, Mutineer', in Life's Handicap.
Best regards to all, John Radcliffe
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