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Cone Gatherers Quote
‘stood Duror the gamekeeper, in an icy sweat of hatred, with his gun aimed all the time at the feebleminded hunchback groveling over the rabbit’ |
"We're just simple minded folk Neil, I just want for us to be simple folk" |
'the wood had always been his stronghold, his sanctuary' |
'Duror had sworn that he would seize the opportunity to hound them out the woods' |
'Duror was alone in his obsession' |
'He was angry at how those two subhumans lived in peace while strong able men killed each other in wars' |
‘its topmost branches as comfortable as chairs’ |
‘A private fence of giant silver firs’ |
‘the ground round about was filthy with their refuse and ordure’ |
‘the overspreading tree of revulsion in him’ |
‘sobbing in his quandary’ |
‘He had read that the Germans were putting idiots and cripples to death in gas chambers...surely their deaths could not be called murder’ |
'He smiled, scarcely knowing what the words meant; |
'No matter how many times you explain in the simplest context, Calum's physical mindset is too slow to understand' |
'he was as indigenous as a squirrel or bird' |
'he shared the suffering of the rabbit' |
'Calum shivered: he knew and feared death' |
'for Calum, the treetop was interesting enough' |
'such ability should be in a half-man, a freak an imbecile.' |
' he waited for over an hour there to see them pass' |