The quotations for the coming week (Dec 9th to 15th) are as follows:
1. ..."Don't speak English," said Lalun, bending over her sitar afresh. The
chorus went out from the City wall to the blackened wall of Fort Amara which
dominates the City.
2. "...What d'you think of that?" said he in English. "Carnehan can't talk
their patter, so I've made him my servant. He makes a handsome servant.
'Tisn't for nothing that I've been knocking about the country for fourteen
years"...
3. .I began to tell the story of Charlie in English, but Grish Chunder put a
question in the vernacular, and the history went forward naturally in the
tongue best suited for its telling. After all, it could never have been told
in English...
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The sources of last week's quotations (Dec 2nd to 8th) were as follows:
1. 'We're ground together under the remorseless teeth o' the engines of
oppression !.' is from 'A Walking Delegate in 'The Day's Work'.
2. '...saddle and bridle were stripped off, and the handsome creature was
left alone in the centre of the straw yard...' This is from 'Captain Hayes
and the Horse', originally written for the CMG of 14 April 1886, included in
Sussex Scrapbboks 28/3, and collected in Thomas Pinney's 'Kipling's India'.
3. '.he behaved himself very politely, and ate bread dipped in salt, and
was petted all round the table...' This is from 'The Maltese Cat', in 'The
Day's Work'.
Those who are not regular visitors to the web-site may like to note that in
addition to new quotations and poems each week, a number of new items have
recently been added to the Members' news page: the forthcoming first day
covers for the Just So Stories centenary; the revival of the Society's
bookplate from the 1930s; the reissue of the Penguin edition of the Selected
Poetry, edited by Craig Raine; Tom Pinney and David Richards' book on RK and
his first publisher; a 1940 review of Edward Shanks' 'Critical Appreciation'
of RK's work, discoverd by Alastair Wilson in a back number of 'The Naval
Review'; and Christmas lunches at Bateman's.
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Good wishes to all, John Radcliffe
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