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Lieutenant Dub used the opportunity to deliver a lengthy sermon on how a soldier ought to conduct himself and what he duties were towards his fatherland and the Monarch, who was the supreme commander and highest military authority. Of coure there should be elements of this kind in the battalion they must be eradicated, punished and clapped into gaol.

Whatever the truth of the matter, the Germans was seeing existed objectively and was not a product of his altered state. Urgent, impertinent birds flung outlandish cries in the tangled vegetation, guinea fowl and hairy rats scampered away before them, powerful yellow pumas kept watch from rock ledges. And the condor soared pensively over the abysses.

After all, art was his secret. He had conquered it, although at an exorbitant price. He had paid with everything else in his life, so why not the accident and the subsequent transformation? In the game of repetitions and permutations, he could conceal him-self even in his new state, and function unseen like any other avatar of the artist. Repetitions: in other words, the history of art.

He never finished because Lieutenant Lukáš interrupted his example from life with the words: 'You miserable bastard, you! I shan't explain anything to you. Get back into the van again and tell Baloun that when we come to Budapest he is to bring me in the staff carriage a roll and that liver pâté I have in tin foil in the bottom of my bag. Then tell Vaněk that he's a bloody mule.

But looking back one last time, the grandeur of the Andes reared, wild and enigmatic, excessively wild and enigmatic. For a few days now, descend-ing steadily, they had felt an exhausting heat closing around them. While his soul dreamt on, contem-plating that universe of rock from the last lookout, Rugendas's body was bathed in sweat.

New Sufferings

COLONEL SCHRÖDER Observed with satisfaction the pale counte-nance of Lieutenant Lukáš who had big rings under his eyes and in his embarrassment avoided the colonel's gaze. Instead, surrepti-tiously, as though he were studying something he eyed the plan of the disposition of the men in the camp, which was also the only ornament in the whole of the office.

Švejk's Adventures in Királyhida

THE 91st regiment moved to Királyhida or Bruck an der Leitha.

Just three hours before Švejk was to be released after three days' confinement he was taken away with the one-year volunteer to the main guard-room and marched to the station under military escort.

In a second-class compartment of the Prague-České Budějovice express there were three people: Lieutenant Lukáš, an elderly gentleman opposite with a completely bald pate, and Švejk, who stood modestly at the door to the corridor and was just braving himself to receive a new volley of oaths from Lieutenant Lukáš, who, disregarding the presence of the bald civilian, kept thunder-ing at Švejk throughout the journey...

The traffic was heavy here too, and the people crowding the sidewalks were no different from the María had said) I started to notice some differences. To start with, the lighting. The streetlights on Bucareli are white, but on Avenida Guerrero they had more of an amber tone.

The sea makes us men-the longest day in human history

Remember this with us: the sea is bigger than daily life.

You can find rest at sea. There you find vastness, incomprehensible dimensions that soothe, comfort and diminish life's difficulties. People's troubles on land, friction, frustration, interactions with others, obligations, you gaze into the waves and sense how existence is calmed within your chest.

It's February and the heart of Tito, the dictator of Yugoslavia, seems to be failing, Ari reads about it on the front page of the Morgunblaðið; the top story is a fragile heart. Yugoslavia is a large country on the Balkan peninsula with about ten million inhabit-ants, but their fate is hanging by a fragile heart. Does that mean that the world cares after all, that life matters? Ari eats porridge.

I took my suitcase to my and Aris cousin-once-removed, who lives in a small, two-storey wooden house in Keflavik's oldest hamster but the cats ate it, and then got himself a cheerful para neighbourhood, alone with his two cats he'd tried keeping a keet but the cats did it in, frightened it to death.

Do I really want to see Sandgerði again, he thinks, surprised by his decision, or am I simply putting off going to my hotel room, being alone there, having to ring Dad, having to open the folder with the letters, the fragments of poems, photos, clippings?, know. ing that he'll do so, knowing that he must do so, and read the letter from Elin;

Švejk Thrown out of the Lunatic Asylum

WHEN Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do.

But she didn't ask Hovine a thing. She ended up con-vincing herself it was just a dream, the kind that leaves its stench behind the next day, and even the following days, to the point where it blends with your daily life and you can no longer separate dream from reality. She only hoped the dream wouldn't recur. The best thing would be to change her address.

Next day he received from Karenin a definite refusal to divorce Anna, and understood that this decision was based on what the Frenchman had said the evening before, in his real or pretended sleep.

THE Levins had been more than two months in Moscow. The date on which, according to the most exact calculations of persons experienced in such matters, Kitty should have been confined had long passed; but she had not yet been delivered, nor were there any signs that the time was nearer now than it had been two months previously.

......... having placed himself in the hands of those who with so much pleasure busied themselves with his affairs, he consented to everything. Only after Anna had left his house, and the English governess sent to ask him whether she was to dine with him or alone, did he for the first time clearly understand his position, and he was horror-struck at it.

THE Princess Shcherbatskaya at first considered it out of the question to have the wedding before Advent, to which there remained but five weeks, but could not help agreeing with Levin that to put it off until after the Fast might involve waiting too long, for Shcherbatsky's old aunt was very ill and likely to die soon, and then the family would be in mourning and the wedding would have to be considerably deferred.

PESTSOV liked to bring his discussions to a finish, and had not been satisfied with Koznyshev's remark, especially as he felt the fallacy of his own opinion.

'I did not mean, he began over his soup, addressing Kar-enin, 'the density of population alone, but that, combined with firm foundations. It is not principles that count.

Reedbed

One morning after a night of snow, she walks into a reedbed. She parts the reeds, each slender white stalk bent under the weight of the snow. The reedbed surrounds a small marsh, where a pair of wild ducks are living. At its heart, where the thin sheet of ice meets still water, the ducks float side by side on its greyish-blue surface, necks bowed to drink.

It was already past five, and in order not to be late and not to use his own horses, which were known to everybody, Vronsky took Yashvin's hired carriage and told the coachman to drive as fast as possible. The old four-seated hired vehicle was very roomy; he sat down in a corner, put his legs on the opposite seat, and began to think.

Sand

And she frequently forgot,
That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand.
That it had shattered and is shattering still.
Slipping stubbornly through fingers.

Snow

Against the background of a black coat sleeve, a large flake of snow will reveal its crystals even to the naked eye. A scant couple of seconds and she has witnessed it all. Mysterious hexagons melting clean away.

When it first begins to fall, people stop what they are doing and turn their attention to the snow. On a bus, they lift their eyes from their laps and gaze out of the window for a time.

Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a great influence on her, it also comforted her in her mental distress. She found this comfort through a completely new world being opened to her by means of this acquaintance, a world having nothing in common with her past, an exalted, noble world..........

I saw some footage of this city, taken by a US military aircraft in the spring of 1945. The film was screened in the projection room on the first floor of the memorial hall, situated in the east of the city. The subtitles said that over a period of six months, starting in October 1944, 95 per cent of the city was obliterated.

The place where they were going to shoot was not far away by a stream among young aspen trees. When they had reached the wood Levin got down and led Oblonsky to the corner of a mossy, marshy glade, already free from snow. He himself went to a forked birch on the other side and leaning his gun against the fork of the lower branch took off his coat, tightened his girdle and tried whether he could move his arms freely.

An eagle flew thrice round Tarquin’s head, removing his cap to replace it, and thereupon Tanaquil, his wife, declared that Tarquin would be king of Rome. But only by the replacing of the cap was that omen accounted good. Ahab’s hat was never restored; the wild hawk flew on and on with it; far in advance of the prow: and at last disappeared.....

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon.

.........according to my careful calculation, I say, a Sperm Whale of the largest magnitude, between eighty-five and ninety feet in length, and something less than forty feet in its fullest circumference, such a whale will weigh at least ninety tons; so that, reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of one thousand one hundred inhabitants.