From: Floyd Scarabelli
Category: Amis
Date: 9/11/99
Time: 6:45:48 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.126.131
FROM *TIME'S ARROW*: "Still, I couldn't help responding, at least in spirit, to the orgy of general joy as we docked in Lisbon...The herdsman's infrequent cries are full of the Portuguese melancholy, the Portuguese humanity...Around us in the middle distance, which is as near or far as anywhere else seems to get, lie other havens of plaster and flora. I like it here."
FROM *I LIKE IT HERE* BY KINGSLEY AMIS: "From where he was standing he could see quite a lot of Lisbon, if it was Lisbon. The buildings were a pleasant color in the strong sun, bright green trees showed among them, and the whole thing looked inviting and rather historical. It was a pity that so many non- and non-native speakers of English lived there."
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FROM *TIME'S ARROW*: "We came out the other side of it with a temporary chauffeur, a good profit, and a really first-rate new name: that of Hamilton de Souza."
FROM *I LIKE IT HERE*: "He had nothing against either de Sousa---the little grinning lemur-faced one---or Bachixa---the stout dignified good-looking one. But de Sousa spoke almost no English and Bachixa, though he spoke some, obviously spoke far more Portuguese."
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FROM *TIME'S ARROW*: "There are poems to Rosa, which he takes from the trash. They are brought in the wicker wastepaper basket by bowing Lourdes. Never more than two or three lines long. 'The soul of a princess in her gypsy rags, / Doomed to fret in her humble stall...' And: 'Rosa, whose innocence asks to be saved! / Where the knight who will deliver her?' Yeah. Where the knight."
FROM *I LIKE IT HERE*: "After a moment Bowen could hear Rosie come out of the dining-room, her forty-minute task of laying the dinner-table completed or suspended, and go in search of her husband. Her sound was the shuffling clop of the loose fur-trimmed slippers she wore. It was available at any hour of the day and many of the night, and it managed to generate a really impressive charge of ennui."