Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat - Ernest Bramah Reviews
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Newest Review: ... indulgent should have no excuse for avoiding his entertainment. 'It is well said,' he remarked with becoming humility, 'that ... more
... the more insignificant the flower the handsomer the bees that are attracted to it, and the truth of the observation is borne out by this distinguished gathering of influential noblemen all condescending to listen to the second-rate elocution of so ill-endowed a person as the one who is now speaking.'"
This flowery habit of speech is a convention maintained throughout and by all characters, although few use it as felicitously as Kai Lung himself, as is the overblown politeness. Even the coarsest of villains affect...more
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat - Ernest Bramah: An unassuming relater of imagined tales (2259 words)by - written on 11/10/08, updated on 11/10/08 (Very useful, 373 readings)
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The 80th anniversary of its publication and the 140th of its author's birth provide a suitable occasion to post this review. _______________________________________ "After enduring many hardships and suffering occasional inconvenience through the really flattering but too excessively persistent attentions of brigands, outlaws, underling officials, wild beasts of various kinds, snakes and scorpions, swollen rivers, broken paths and thunder-stones, Kai Lung came on the seventh day at evening to the outskirt of a trackless morass that barred his further progress." It took me some time to select an opening quotation with which to ... Read the complete review
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