‘“Not no necklace,” said Jo, after a moment’s consideration. “Called a amulet.” Sarah looked up briefly. Why had Jo’s response been so reluctant? Another spoonful. There was no motion in the body, but the spoon always came out clean. Sarah didn’t think that she would ever grow used to this disgusting operation.”
‘These are secret things, Louis…the soil of a man’s heart is stonier…like the soil up in the old Micmac burying ground. A man grows what he can…and he tends it.’
‘For example, he knew his father made the sun come up and the river flood and so on. That was basic, it was what the pharaohs had done ever since the time of Khuft, you couldn’t go around questioning things like that.’
‘“And there was someone outside the house, crawling or something. It sounded like someone was rubbing themselves against the wall, or dragging themselves down the side of the house. (…) I could hear these voices too. Tiny voices. They were tiny elderly voices. Old people. A crowd of them. They were in the room somewhere, like in a corner that I couldn’t see, or in the air above the bed. It was horrid.”’
‘“Where do you want the stones then, guvnor?” Rex stared up at the spaceman on the descending ramp. “Where do I want the what?” “The stones guvnor, for the henge.”’
‘(Starring Three Witches, also kings, daggers, crowns, storms, dwarfs, cats, ghosts, specters, apes, bandits, demons, forests, heirs, jesters, tortures, trolls, turntables, general rejoicing and divers alarums.)’
