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Katerina's falsetto screams.. but I automatically subtracted ninety per cent of the screaming as exaggeration ... ... all the relatives would scream in sympathy...The resulting cacophony in that tiny space had to be heard to be believed.
Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, Collins, London, 1969, p. 99.
TIME: about 1935
PLACE: Corfu
CIRCUMSTANCE: a birth
...a herd of goats... the leader's bell clonking mournfully ... hear the tearing sound of their jaws as they ate... uttered a short, sardonic 'bah!'
Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, Collins, London, 1969, p.111.
TIME: about 1935
PLACE: Corfu
Outside one could hear the hoarse, jeering crow of a cockerel and the soft murmuring of the hens (a sound soothing as bubbling porridge)... sharp chittering of sparrows in the eaves and the sudden outburst of wheezing, imploring cries... food to their brood.
Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, Collins, London, 1969, p.124.
TIME: about 1935
PLACE: Corfu
CIRCUMSTANCE: morning
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