• Quote of the Week

The piano was indeed hopelessly out of order, but Mottram managed to bring the rebellious notes into a sort of agreement, and there rose from the ragged keyboard something that might once have been the ghost of a popular music-hall song.

This is from “At the End of the Passage” collected in Mine Own People (USA) and in Life’s Handicap (UK) both in 1891.

A harrowing tale of the loneliness and desperation incurred by men working in the remote stations of the Raj, and the all to easy descent into hallucination and more…

and… John Radcliffe’s “Three Quotations”

Here are the sources of these extracts