Showing posts with label spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spirit. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 September 2010

An Apache ponders



Why should the Americanos try to force their law on us? . . . It is because their spirit tells them to spread their law to all people, and they believe their spirit is better than ours.


Flashman and the Redskins, p.167, Pan Books edition, 1983.




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Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Open with care


‘Flashman, you must see my agony of spirit … I’m trying to … make you understand. Please – tell me, even now, what I can do.’
      ‘Well,’ says I, thoughtfully, ‘you could go fart in a bottle and paint it.’




Flashman in the Great Game, pp.210-11, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.




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Friday, 6 June 2008

Flashman huzoor

‘Continue, Flashman huzoor; share the riches of your spirit with me!’



Flashman, p.208, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.




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