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"all the pleasure those men get out of a woman I can feel his mouth O Lord I must stretch myself" (U18.583) |
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"frseeeeeeeefronnnng train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like big giants and the water rolling all over and out of them all sides like the end of Loves old sweeeetsonnnng the poor men that have to be out all the night from their wives and families in those roasting engines stifling it was today" (U18.596) |
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"I thought it was going to get like Gibraltar my goodness the heat there before the levanter came on black as night" (U18.606) |
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"and the glare of the rock standing up in it like a big giant compared with their 3 Rock mountain they think is so great with the red sentries here and there the poplars and they all whitehot" (U18.608) |
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"and the smell of the rainwater in those tanks watching the sun all the time weltering down on you faded all" (U18.610) |
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"that lovely frock fathers friend Mrs Stanhope sent me from the B Marche paris what a shame my dearest Doggerina she wrote on it" (U18.612) |
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"wd give anything to be back in Gib and hear you sing Waiting and in old Madrid" (U18.616) |
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"will always think of the lovely teas we had together scrumptious currant scones and raspberry wafers I adore well now dearest Doggerina be sure and write soon kind she left out regards to your father also captain Grove with love yrs affly Hester xxxxx" (U18.620) |
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"she didnt look a bit married just like a girl he was years older than her wogger he was awfully fond of me when he held down the wire with his foot for me to step over at the bullfight at La Linea" (U18.623) |
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"when that matador Gomez was given the bulls ear" (U18.626) A PC of a matador in a splendid 'habit de lumiere.' Matador Gomez anachronistically evokes Jose Gomez (1895 - 1920), known as Joselito, a Spanish bullfighter born in Gelves (Andalusia) and the youngest bullfighter to receive the title of matador at the age of 17. Joselito was fatally wounded at age 25 during a competitive bullfight with his brother-in-law. |
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"these clothes we have to wear whoever invented them expecting you to walk up Killiney hill" (U18.627) A PC of Killiney hill, printed by Hely's. |
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"then for example at that picnic all staysed up you cant do a blessed thing in them in a crowd run or jump out of the way" (U18.628) |
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"that's why I was afraid when that other ferocious old Bull began to charge the banderilleros with the sashes and the 2 things in their hats and the brutes of men shouting bravo toro" (U18.629) |
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"sure the women were as bad in their nice white mantillas ripping all the whole insides out of those poor horses I never heard of such a thing in all my life yes" (U18.632) |
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"I made the scones of course I had everything all to myself then a girl Hester we used to compare our hair mine was thicker than hers she showed me how to settle it at the back when I put it up and whats this else how to make a knot on a thread with the one hand" (U18.637) |