Here are the quotations for next week (Nov 17th to 23rd)
1. .'...I made haste, the river aiding me, but ere I had touched the shoal,
the pulse of the stream beat, as it were, within me and around, and, behold,
the shoal was gone, and I rode high on the crest of a wave that ran from
bank to bank…the rain came and lashed the water white, and I heard no more
save the roar of the waters below and the roar of the rain above…'
2. "...A tarred road, she shoots every drop o' water into a valley same's a
slate roof. 'Tisn't as 'twas in the old days, when the water soaked in and
soaked out in the way o' nature. It rooshes off they tarred roads all of a
lump, and naturally every drop is bound to descend into the valley..."
3. ...There was not so much a roar as the purposeful drive of a tide across
a jagged reef, which put down every other sound for twenty minutes. A wide
sheet of water hurried up to the little terrace on which the house stood,
pushed round every corner, rose again and stretched, as it were, yawning
beneath the moonlight, joined other sheets waiting for them in unsuspected
hollows, and lay out all in one. A puff of wind followed...
The sources of this week's extracts (Nov 10th to 16th) are as follows:
1. (...'The Abbot of Wilton kept the best pack in the country. He enclosed
all the Harryngton Woods to Sturt Common...') This is from 'Under the Mill
Dam' in 'Traffics and Discoveries'.
2. (...'Henceforth I will give one dollar to the man on whose land Abu
Hussein is found...' This is from 'Little Foxes' in 'Actions and
Reactions'.
3. (...(he) desired more than he desired anything else at that moment, to
ride, and above all, to jump on a ninety guinea bay gelding...) This is
from 'My Son's Wife' in 'A Diversity of Creatures'.
We are now putting on the web-site an increasing number of draft entries for
the new Readers' Guide. These are to be found via the 'REaders' guide'
button on the home page of the site at www.kipling.org.uk and 'A New
Readers' Guide' in the sidebar. They include entries on "The Enemies to Each
Other", "A Doctor of Medicine", "Judson and the Empire", "Kipling and the
Royal Navy", and "Kipling's Biographers". There is also a "Note for
Contributors" which sets out our approach to the new Guide (NRG) and the
style rules we plan to follow.
Any comments on these documents will be gratefully received.
All good wishes, John R
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