Skrzynecki Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Family - father
A
“my gentle father”
2
Q
Self - Joneses
A
“kept pace only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making”
3
Q
Place - garden
A
“loved his garden like an only child”
4
Q
Place - world
A
“he swept its paths ten times around the world”
5
Q
Culture - friends
A
“His Polish friends”
“talking, they reminisced”
6
Q
Need for belonging - happy
A
“happy as I have never been”
7
Q
Culture - allusion
A
“Caesar’s Gallic War”
“Hadrian’s Wall”
8
Q
Barriers - bear
A
“who asked me in dancing bear grunts: ‘Did your father ever attempt to learn English?’”
