I'm going to post for the whole week because I don't like being a slacker.
TUESDAY:
There is a quote at the beginning of most of the chapters in the book I'm reading about the circus. I like this one:
"Tomorrow morning the circus will also leave the city, for the gipsy must ever wander on. The rain falls where he rests, the fragrant blossoms and the ozone of the sea woo him, he knows the charm of tender nights when the moon is full, and nights when the storm wind whistles. He knows river valleys and mountain chains, the song of the cuckoo and crickets chirp. Whether the grain be swaying in the breeze or the autumn mist pressing the leaves to the ground, the circus travels on through the world with man and beast, the big tent rises aloft with its steely song, and there is ntohing above the bliss of its roaming save the eternal tented roof of the stars."
WEDNESDAY
josser (n)- in circus slang, an outsider who enters this curiously private and familial world but is neither born nor bred into it
bung (v)- give as a present; make a gift of
enigmatic (adj)- Pertaining to an enigma; Mysterious; Defying description
eradicate (v)- To pull up by the roots; to uproot; To completely destroy; to put an end to; to extirpate
THURSDAY
I'm not reading any top 100 books. Probably next week, though!
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