Here are the quotations for this week (August 28 to Sept 3rd) :
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 last week's extracts (Aust 21st to 27th) are as follows:
1. (…There were still hot hollows surrounded by wet rocks where he could
hardly breathe for the heavy scents...) This is from "The Spring
Running" in The Second Jungle Book.
2. (..The trees closing overhead made long tunnels through which the
sunshine worked in blobs and patches...) This is from "Young Men at the
Manor" in Puck of Pook's Hill.
3. ('…in the cool o' the morning the cat-bird sings. He's something to
listen to. ) This is from "Brother Square-toes" in Rewards and Fairies.
Good wishes to all
John R
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