More Kipling

[David C Kifer]

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places do not count. San
Francisco was a pleasure-resort as well as a city, and Salt Lake was a phenomenon.
This place is the first American city I have encountered. It holds rather more than a million of
people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta. Having seen it, I urgently
desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
--Rudyard Kipling, "V: Chicago" _American Notes (1891)_

"For the sin that ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one!"
-- Rudyard Kipling, "Tomlinson"

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is
too old.
--Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Was (1891)

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south
With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;
Four things greater than all things are--
Women and Horses and Power and War.
--Rudyard Kipling, Ballad of the King's Jest

Smells are surer than sounds or sights
To make your heart-strings crack—
They start those awful voices o’nights
That whisper, “Old man, come back!”
--Rudyard Kipling, opening stanza of the poem Lichtenberg.

He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British author, poet. "The Finest Story in the World," Many Inventions

But remember please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive.
If you make a slip in handling us you die.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British author, poet. "The Secret of the Machines."



--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]