“They played one piece of music which lasted forty minutes. It stopped three times by the way; and we all thought it was done each time, and clapped our hands, rejoiced to be rid of it. But on it went again, to our great surprise and mortification, till we gave it up in despair, and [...]
From a BBC news article, quoting one striker talking to another:
“I knew I’d find you here, because the crowd’s alphabetical.”
“King of the couch”
“Home + work: two words that should never be together”
Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature. She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, [...]
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
“…[I]f there was only someone with a richer talent and more leisure I think that this great ignorance [of the Christian ideas in Out of the Silent Planet] might be a help to the evangelisation of England; any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under cover of romance without their knowing [...]
Ah! you want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you.
A widow’s lament: The first singleness is anticipatory, the second a shoreless wasteland. — Andree Seu, World Magazine
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