fiefoe | "Arthur & George"

*** 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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