Here are the quotations for the coming week, (August 4th to 10th):
1. .Thanks to the khaki everywhere, the scene was not unlike that which one
might have seen on earth every evening of the old days outside the
refreshment room by the Arch at Victoria Station, when the Army trains
started.
2. .The passengers filed out - they and the waiting crowd devouring each
other with their eyes. Some. Misled by a likeness or a half-heard voice,
hurried forward crying a name or even stretching out their arms. To cover
their error, they would pretend they had made no sign and bury themselves
among their uninterested neighbours. As the last passenger came away, a
little moan rose from the assembly.
3. . "They are my own. The old women dream of me, turning in their sleep;
the maids look and listen for me when they go to fill their lotahs by the
river. I walk by the young men waiting within the gates at dusk, and I call
over my shoulder to the white-beards. Ye know, heavenly ones, that I alone
of us walk upon the earth continually, and have no pleasure in our heavens
as long as a green blade springs here, or there are two voices at twilight
in the standing crops. Wise are ye, but ye live far off, forgetting whence
ye came ."
The sources of this week's extracts (July 28th to August 3rd) are as
follows:
1. ('...a great dog-wolf jumped out behind us, and away our rested hounds
tore after him, with us at their tails...') This is from 'On The Great
Wall' in 'Puck of Pook's Hill'.
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...') This is from 'The Knife
and the Native Chalk' in 'Rewards and Fairies'.
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...)
This is from 'The White Seal' in 'The Jungle Book'
Good wishes to all, John R
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