Here - a several colleagues have pointed out - are the answers to last
week's questions: (July 4th-10th)
1. Larry Tighe was a gentleman ranker in the Black Tyrone, in the tale ‘Love
o’ Women’ in Many Inventions His real first name was Ellis.
2. Keller was an American journalist, who was one of the three that saw the
great sea monster washed up from the deep, in ‘A Matter of Fact’ in Many
Inventions.
3. The ‘gondiment, not a fluid’, was Worcester Sauce, as insisted by Muller,
the ‘gigantic German’ who was responsible for all the woods and forests of
India, and recruited Mowlgi as a forest ranger, in ‘In the Rukh’ in Many
Inventions.
This week's quotations (July 11-17) are as follows:
1. ...I waited in a still, nut-brown hall, pleasant with late flowers and
warmed with a delicious wood fire - a place of good influence and great
peace. (Men and women may sometimes, after great effort, achieve a
creditable lie; but the house, which their temple, cannot say anything save
the truth of those who have lived in it.)...
2. ...When the steeds of recrimination had ceased to career across the
plains of memory, and when the drum of evidence was no longer beaten by the
drumstick of malevolence, and the bird of argument had taken refuge in the
rocks of silence...
3. ...The velvety, perfumed liquor, between fawn and topaz, neither too
sweet nor too dry, creamed in its generous glass. But I knew no wine
composed of the whispers of angels' wings, the breath of Eden and the foam
and pulse of Youth renewed..."It is champagne," he said gravely.'
All contributions gratefully received !
John R
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