Here are the quotations for next week (August 18th to 24th):
1. '..."You'll be seein' Mr Godsoe soon ? .Well then, tell him from me that
I expect to be through with my little trouble by the twenty-first of next
month, an' I'm dyin' to see him as soon as possible after that date." '
'What sort of trouble was it?' .
'She'd 'ad a bit of a gatherin' in 'er breast, I believe. But she never
talked of 'er body much to anyone.'
2. '.Come spring , I 'ad something else to rage for. I'd growed a nasty
little weepin' boil, like, on me shin, just above the boot-top, that
wouldn't heal no shape. It made me sick to look at it, for I'm clean-fleshed
by nature. Chop me all over with a spade an' I'd heal like turf.I've gone
the better part of a year onct or twice with na'un more to show than the
little weepin' core of it, like. All s'rinked up an' dried off. Then he'd
inflame up - for a warnin' - an' I'd suffer it.'
3. .He went down the road, collected his little knot of listeners, and began
the Song of the Girl. In the middle of his singing he felt the cold touch of
the Crab's claw on the apple of his throat. He lifted his hand, choked, and
stopped for an instant.when his song was ended, he felt the grip on his
throat tighten.
The sources of this week's quotations (August 11th to 17th) are as follows:
1. ('...With a mallet and a pair of tweezers he knocked out mysterious
wedges of wood that released the forme..") This from "The Last Term" in
'Stalky & Co.'
2. ('....Look! The thing shines now within and without. God! That so much
should lie on a word.' ) This is from "Proofs of Holy Writ", RK's last tale,
which was written too late to appear in 'Limits and Renewals' , the last
collection.
3. ('... a tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that
has been poked...') This is from 'Something of Myself'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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