"Arthur & George"

[fiefoe]

*** Every bird you downed bore pebbles in its gizzard from a land the maps ignored.

George:

• George himself is never urged to speak the truth: this would imply that he needs encouragement.
• To his surprise, he finds that he is becoming the owner of a temper. To his further surpise, it makes him feel rather grown up.
  
• Somehow Mr. Disturnal made this growing precision imply an equally increasing confidence that the prisoner in the dock was there for the reasons stated in the indictment.
• His sequential thoughts lost their steady pace; they lurched, they plunged ahead, they followed emotional gravity.

__ Faith endorsed by materialism: a double curse.
__ In Ireland, of course, the midnight houghing of the landlord's cattle is practically part of the social calendar.
__ the smallest smile he had in his repertoire
__ waiting for the next thing to happen
__ the interstices of his calendar

relieved as Mafeking, Chinese burn

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