This week's quotations (October 22nd to 28th) are all to do with pain or
healing:
1. He saw perspectives of heads - gunshot wounds - seen from above and a
little behind, as they'd lie on the tables; with the pad over their mouths,
but they still all accused him of murder. On off-nights he had orderlies
whispering to him to wake up and give some poor beggar a chance to live.
Then they'd waggle his foot, and he'd wake up grateful for the pain, and
change the dressings. His foot was in a filthy state…
2. He coughed, and as he drew breath, his pain broke through all the drugs,
and the outcry filled the room …a full, high, affected voice, unheard for a
generation, accompanied, as it seemed, the clamour of a beast in agony,
saying: 'I wish to God someone would stop that old swine howling down there
! I can't …'
3. She was choking with her throat; had rushed to the window for air; had
near pitched out, and in catching at the window bars had cut her hand. Over
and over she made this clear to the intent Baxter. Then she turned on her
sister, and tongue-lashed her savagely.
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The sources of last week's quotations (October 15th to 21st) - as a number
of people have pointed out - were as follows:
1. 'Thrown Away' in PTFTH
2. 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes' in WWW
3. 'Love 0' Women' in 'Many Inventions'
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Best regards, John R
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