Here are the quotations for this week (July 28th to August 3rd)
1. '.a great dog-wolf jumped out behind us, and away our rested hounds tore
after him, with us at their tails. He ran straight as an arrow till sunset,
towards the sunset. We came at last to long capes stretching into winding
waters, and on a grey beach below us we saw ships drawn up.Men moved in the
ships, and the sun flashed on their helmets.'
2. '.A fire without a flame burned in my head; an evil taste grew in my
mouth; my eyelids shut hot over my eyes; my breath was hot between my teeth,
and my hands were like the hands of a stranger. I was made to sing songs and
to mock the trees, though I was afraid of them. At the same time I saw
myself laughing, and I was very sad for this fine young man, who was
myself.'.
3. .he was always learning.to follow the cod and the halibut along the
under-sea banks, and wrench the rockling out of his hole among the weeds;
how to skirt the wrecks lying a hundred fathoms below water, and dart like a
rifle bullet in at one port-hole and out at another as the fishes ran.to
take the shoulder piece out of a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep; and
never to stop to look at a boat or ship.
The sources of last week's extracts (July 21st to 27th) were as follows:
1. (...It was a slope of gap-edged fields possessed to their centres by
clumps of brambles. Gates were not, and the rabbit-mined, cattle-rubbed
posts leaned out and in.) This is from 'An Habitation Enforced' in 'Actions
and Reactions'.
2. (...I found hidden villages where bees, the only things awake, boomed in
eighty-foot lindens that overhung grey Norman churches; miraculous brooks
diving under stone bridges...) This is from 'They' in 'Traffics and
Discoveries'.
3. (......the life of the English road, which to me is one renewed and
unreasoning orgy of delight. The mustard-coloured scouts of the Automobile
Association; their natural enemies, the unjust police; our natural
enemies...)
This is from 'The Vortex' in 'A Diversity of Creatures'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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