tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post4363347750948466035..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: One for the Heatwave...Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-21699149229587763552022-07-23T10:05:15.699+01:002022-07-23T10:05:15.699+01:00Yes indeed, Wurmbrand – and the lines that preface...Yes indeed, Wurmbrand – and the lines that preface it –<br />'<br />The sky is lead and our faces are red,<br />And the gates of Hell are opened and riven,<br />And the winds of Hell are loosened and driven,<br />And the dust flies up in the face of Heaven,<br />And the clouds come down in a fiery sheet,<br />Heavy to raise and hard to be borne.<br />And the soul of man is turned from his meat,<br />Turned from the trifles for which he has striven<br />Sick in his body, and heavy hearted,<br />And his soul flies up like the dust in the sheet<br />Breaks from his flesh and is gone and departed,<br />As the blasts they blow on the cholera-horn.'<br /><br />A great and terrible story...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-73920778472322888152022-07-22T23:43:49.060+01:002022-07-22T23:43:49.060+01:00One is reminded immediately of Kipling's great...One is reminded immediately of Kipling's great, great story of heat, "At the End of the Passage."<br /><br />Dale NelsonWurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-35462203826911246222022-07-20T09:10:32.163+01:002022-07-20T09:10:32.163+01:00Very true, George!Very true, George!Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-13120887825920718632022-07-20T02:57:09.139+01:002022-07-20T02:57:09.139+01:00Having lived my life where summer temperatures oft...Having lived my life where summer temperatures often reach 95 F, I suspect that youth will do stranger things to a man than high temperatures. Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com