Callum - " The scent of the tree seemed to strengthen with the darkness until Callum fancied he was resting in the heart of an enormous flower"
"He stroked the branches and to his gentle hand they were as soft as petals"
"He became an owl himself, he rose and fanned his wings, flew close to the ground then swooped to rise again with vole or shrew squeaking in his talons, part bird, part man he suffered in the inelecutable predicament of necessary pain and death"
Neil - "gazed at the great house with a calm yet bitter intentness and anticipation, as if, having put a spell on it, he was waiting for it to change"
" Yet neil did not give the word to go down. It was not zeal to fill the bags that made him linger, for he had given up gathering. He just sat, motionless and silent."
Duror - " A destroyer had steamed seawords"
"sailor singing"
"sudden and swifter than hawks"
"aeroplanes had shot down from the sky"
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The Cone Gatherers. Page 9-10 NB MF RMac
Callum.
"the clean report of the gun and the last obscene squeal of the killed dwarf"
"Into it had crept this hunchback, himself one of natures freaks, whose abject acceptance of nature, like the whining prostrations of a heathen in front of an idol."
Neil
"Tall, thin, grey-haired with appearance of harsh meditation obviously false in a man who read no books and could only spell through a newspaper word by word"
Duror
"He had waited for over an hour there to see them pass. Every minute had been a purgatory of humiliation: it was as if he was in their service forced to wait upon them as upon his masters."
"While waiting, he had imagined them in the darkness missing their footing in the tall tree and coming crashing down through the sea of branches to lie dead on the ground."
"Duror was alone in his obsession."
"Since childhood Duror had been repelled by anything living that had an imperfection or deformaty or lack: a cat with three legs had roused a pity in others, in him an ungovernable disgust."
"the clean report of the gun and the last obscene squeal of the killed dwarf"
"Into it had crept this hunchback, himself one of natures freaks, whose abject acceptance of nature, like the whining prostrations of a heathen in front of an idol."
Neil
"Tall, thin, grey-haired with appearance of harsh meditation obviously false in a man who read no books and could only spell through a newspaper word by word"
Duror
"He had waited for over an hour there to see them pass. Every minute had been a purgatory of humiliation: it was as if he was in their service forced to wait upon them as upon his masters."
"While waiting, he had imagined them in the darkness missing their footing in the tall tree and coming crashing down through the sea of branches to lie dead on the ground."
"Duror was alone in his obsession."
"Since childhood Duror had been repelled by anything living that had an imperfection or deformaty or lack: a cat with three legs had roused a pity in others, in him an ungovernable disgust."
Neil Quotes Pages 5&6
"Alone Neil would have been in trouble; he was as dependant on his brother as if he was blind."
"Neil had said little in reply, but had faced up to the gun raised once or twice to emphasise threats."
As he knelt, sobbing in his quandary, the rabbit's squeals brought Neil rushing back. 'Are you daft right enough?' shouted Neil, dragging him to his feet. His voice, with it's anger, sounded forlon amidst the tall dark trees, 'Didn't you promise to leave them alone?' 'It's just one Neil. It's legs are broken.' 'And what if they are? Are you such a child you're going to cry because a rabbit's legs are broken in a snare? Will you never grow up, Calum? You're a man of thirty-one, not a child of ten.' "
"Neil had said little in reply, but had faced up to the gun raised once or twice to emphasise threats."
As he knelt, sobbing in his quandary, the rabbit's squeals brought Neil rushing back. 'Are you daft right enough?' shouted Neil, dragging him to his feet. His voice, with it's anger, sounded forlon amidst the tall dark trees, 'Didn't you promise to leave them alone?' 'It's just one Neil. It's legs are broken.' 'And what if they are? Are you such a child you're going to cry because a rabbit's legs are broken in a snare? Will you never grow up, Calum? You're a man of thirty-one, not a child of ten.' "
quotes for Duror pages 5-6
"It had come next evening when Duror, the big gamekeeper, had been waiting for them outside their hut. His rage had been quiet but intimidating. Neil had said little in reply, but had faced up to the gun raised once or twice to emphasise threats."
"Duror had sworn that he would seize the first chance to hound them out of the wood; they were in it, he said, sore against his wish."
"He remembered to the cold hatred of the gamekeeper; he knew that the penalty for interfering might be expulsion from this wood were he loved to work."
Notes on The Cone gatherers pages 5-6
Calum Quotes.
"Every time he caught his brother's foot and set it on a safe branch it was an act of love."
"Calum moaned at dismay at this dilemma of either displeasing his brother or forsaking a hurt creature. He remembered his solemn promise; he knew that the penalty for interfering might be expulsion from this wood where he loved to work; but above all he shared the suffereing of the rabbit."
Pages 3 and 4
Calum
"Part-bird then, part-men, he suffered in the ineluctable predicament of necessary pain and death."
" 'There seems to be death in the air.' Calum shivered: he knew and feared death."
" 'I ken you do, Calum,' he said. 'And i ken too that, though you're simple, you're better than any one of them.' "
Neil
" 'What's the matter with me these days, Calum? he asked. Is it i'm getting too old? Am i frightened at something? It just comes over me. Sometimes i think it must be the war.' "
"To look after his brother, he had never got married, though once he had come very near it: that memory often revived to turn his heart melancholy."
Calum
"Part-bird then, part-men, he suffered in the ineluctable predicament of necessary pain and death."
" 'There seems to be death in the air.' Calum shivered: he knew and feared death."
" 'I ken you do, Calum,' he said. 'And i ken too that, though you're simple, you're better than any one of them.' "
Neil
" 'What's the matter with me these days, Calum? he asked. Is it i'm getting too old? Am i frightened at something? It just comes over me. Sometimes i think it must be the war.' "
"To look after his brother, he had never got married, though once he had come very near it: that memory often revived to turn his heart melancholy."
Quotes on pages 7 and 8 - The Cone-Gatherers
Quotes on pages 7 and 8 - The Cone-Gatherers
Neil: "And what if they are? Are you such a child you're going to cry because a rabbit's legs are broken in a snare? Will you never grow up, Calum? You're a man of thiry-one, not a child of ten."
"We'll just have to leave it for the keeper. He'll kill it soon enough. It's not our business anyway."
"The cones!" In anger Neil snatched from his bag a fistful of cones and flung them viciously into the trees."
Calum: "Put it out of its pain, Neil."
"But as he touched the long ears, and felt them warm and pulsating with a life not his own, he realised he could not do the rabbit this peculiar kindness"
Duror: Not mentioned in these particular pages
Neil: "And what if they are? Are you such a child you're going to cry because a rabbit's legs are broken in a snare? Will you never grow up, Calum? You're a man of thiry-one, not a child of ten."
"We'll just have to leave it for the keeper. He'll kill it soon enough. It's not our business anyway."
"The cones!" In anger Neil snatched from his bag a fistful of cones and flung them viciously into the trees."
Calum: "Put it out of its pain, Neil."
"But as he touched the long ears, and felt them warm and pulsating with a life not his own, he realised he could not do the rabbit this peculiar kindness"
Duror: Not mentioned in these particular pages
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