vw waves section 1

Question 1

[Louis] but let me be unseen. I am green as a yew tree in the shade of the hedge

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my hai is made of leaves. I am rooted in the middle of the earth

Question 2

[Jinny] What moved the leaves?

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what moves my heart, my legs?

Question 3

[Jinny] and I kissed you, with my heart jumping

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under my pink dress like the leaves, which go on moving though there is nothing to move them

Question 4

[Susan] I will take my anguish and lay it upon the roots under the beech trees. I will examine it and take it between my fingers

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they will not find me. I shall eat nuts and peer for eggs through the brambles and my hair will be matted and I shall sleep under hedges and drink water from ditches and die there

Question 5

[bernard] she has passed the tool house door with her handkerchief screwed into a ball. she was not crying but her eyes, which are so beautiful,

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were narrow as cats’ eyes before they spring. I shall follow her

Question 6

she thinks she is unseen: she begins to run

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with her fists clinched in front of her

Question 7

Susan has spread her anguish out

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her pocket handkerchief is laid on the roots of the beech trees and she sobs, sitting crumpled where she has fallen

Question 8

she danced in flecked diamonds as

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dusts

Question 9

the yellow warmth in my side turned to stone when I saw Jenny Kiss Louis

Answer 9

I shall eat grass and die in a ditch in the brown water where dead leaves have rotted

Question 10

I hear nothing

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that is only the murmur of the wind in the air

Question 11

[Roada with petals] and I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my

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ships may ride the waves

Question 12

[Roada] they have scattered they have foundered, all except my ship which

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mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the island where the parrots chatter and the creepers…

Question 13

[Neville] now we must drop our toys now we must go in together

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the copy-books are laid out side by side on the treen baize table

Question 14

[Louis] My father is a banker in Brisbane and I speak with an Australian accent. I will wait and copy

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Bernard. he is English. they are all English

Question 15

my roots are threaded like fibres in a flower pot, round and round about the world

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I do not wish to come to the top and live in the light of this great clock, yellow-faced, which ticks and ticks

Question 16

they laugh at my neatness, at my Australian accent

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I will now try to imitate Bernard softly lisping Latin

Question 17

those are yellow words

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[jinny] those are fiery words

Question 18

Jinny and Susan, Bernard and Neville bind themselves into a thong with which

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to lash me

Question 19

‘Each tense’ said Neville, “means differently. There is an order in this world; there are distinctions

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there are differences in this world; upon whose verge I step

Question 20

they slam the door. Miss Hudson goes. I am left alone to find an answer. the figures mean nothing now

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meaning has gone. the clock ticks. the two hands are convoys marching through a desert

Question 21

the world is entire and I am outside of it

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crying, ‘oh save me from being blown for ever outside the loop of time

Question 22

‘let us crawl’ said bernard, ‘under the canopy of the underworld. let us take possession of our secret territory

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which is lit by pendant currants like candelabra, shining red on onesie, black on the other

Question 23

this is our

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universe

Question 24

those are Louis’ neat sand-show firmly printing on the gravel. Here come warm gusts of decomposing leaves

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of rotting vegetation. we are in a swamp now; in a malarial jungle

Question 25

but we are doomed all of us, by the apple trees, by the immitigable

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tree which we cannot pass

Question 26

the ripple of my life was unavailing.

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I was unable to pass pass by. there was an obstacle

Question 27

Rhoda dreams, sucking a crust soaked in milk; Luis regards the wall opposite with snail green eyes; bernard moulds his bread into pellets and calls them ‘people’

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Neville with his clean and decisive ways has finished (…) jinny spins her fingers on the table cloth, as if they were dancing in the sunshine, pirouetting

Question 28

it is difficult not to wear as we sing, as we pray that God may keep us safe while we sleep, calling ourselves little children

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when we are sad and trembling with apprehension it is sweet to sing together, leaning slightly, I towards Susan towards brand, clasping hands afraid of much, I of my accent, Rhoda of figures; yet resolute to conquer

Question 29

we troop upstairs

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Like ponies said Bernard

Question 30

water pours down the runnel of my spine,. bright arrows of sensation shoot on either side

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I am covered with warm flesh

Question 31

my dry crannies are wetted; my cold body is warmed; it is sluiced and gleaming

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water descends and sheets me like an eel

Question 32

now hot towels envelope me and their roughness as I rub my back

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makes my blood purr

Question 33

rich and heavy sensations form on the

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roof of my mind

Question 34

down showers the day

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the woods; and Elvedon; Susan and the pigeon

Question 35

pouring down the walls of my mind, running together

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the day falls copious, resplendent