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The Shadow-Show

James Herbert Curle

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Description:Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI GLIMPSES OF THE EAST In this, our Shadow-Show, there is a land whose glamour has never faded, where men still walk as in a dream; it is a land where pipes are playing and distant drums throb; where the shutters have ears; where crows cry at the dawn, the water-wheel creaks through the long day, and crickets sing the weary to sleep; where shadows pass in the breathless nights, and the dead are carried forth at noon. Jama Masjid, the great mosque, lies sweltering in the heat. In its minaret, high over Delhi, I have sat alone these two hours. Spread out below me rests the imperial city, white, flat-roofed, crowded with life: the very heart and spirit of India. Down from the mosque a stately flight of steps leads to a commonage; cross this, and you are at the palace gates. Built in their not-to-be-mistaken red sandstone, this is the old citadel of the Moguls. Below its ramparts the Jumna runs, bounding the city on this side; beyond the river, north and east, are the crop-laden plains of Oudh and the Punjab. Note well these palace ramparts of Delhi; they have seen the making of history. They have seen strange things--marble floors splashed with blood, impious hands dragging at a peacock throne--and what do they not know of intrigue, of imperial caprice, of whispered words to the eunuchs, of moonless nights, and of erstwhile gunny-bags, bulging with their loads, sent hurtling into the muddy waters. Beyond the city walls, towards the south, the vista is of rolling, untilled country, ruins, old tombs, and mosques. Two miles out stands the citadel of Firoz, builder of an earlier Delhi. Those farther ruins, this being no city of yesterday, mark her site a thousand years ago. That stately dome, rising in the distance among lesser domes, is the tomb of Hum...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Shadow-Show. To get started finding The Shadow-Show, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1150396601

Description: Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI GLIMPSES OF THE EAST In this, our Shadow-Show, there is a land whose glamour has never faded, where men still walk as in a dream; it is a land where pipes are playing and distant drums throb; where the shutters have ears; where crows cry at the dawn, the water-wheel creaks through the long day, and crickets sing the weary to sleep; where shadows pass in the breathless nights, and the dead are carried forth at noon. Jama Masjid, the great mosque, lies sweltering in the heat. In its minaret, high over Delhi, I have sat alone these two hours. Spread out below me rests the imperial city, white, flat-roofed, crowded with life: the very heart and spirit of India. Down from the mosque a stately flight of steps leads to a commonage; cross this, and you are at the palace gates. Built in their not-to-be-mistaken red sandstone, this is the old citadel of the Moguls. Below its ramparts the Jumna runs, bounding the city on this side; beyond the river, north and east, are the crop-laden plains of Oudh and the Punjab. Note well these palace ramparts of Delhi; they have seen the making of history. They have seen strange things--marble floors splashed with blood, impious hands dragging at a peacock throne--and what do they not know of intrigue, of imperial caprice, of whispered words to the eunuchs, of moonless nights, and of erstwhile gunny-bags, bulging with their loads, sent hurtling into the muddy waters. Beyond the city walls, towards the south, the vista is of rolling, untilled country, ruins, old tombs, and mosques. Two miles out stands the citadel of Firoz, builder of an earlier Delhi. Those farther ruins, this being no city of yesterday, mark her site a thousand years ago. That stately dome, rising in the distance among lesser domes, is the tomb of Hum...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Shadow-Show. To get started finding The Shadow-Show, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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