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The Last Night (from Charlotte Gray) André and his brother Jacob are two orphaned boys in France in the 1940s. They are waiting to be taken to a concentration camp. A spokesman for the pair said it was not known what had gone wrong. The flying conditions had been “excellent”. Their last expedition ended in farce when the Russians threatened to send in military planes to intercept them as they tried to cross into Siberia via the icebound Bering Strait. Poem at Thirty-Nine by Alice Walker from Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, reproduced by permission of David Higham Associates Limited
I rested a while when I saw that Joe had stopped moving. Obviously he had found an obstacle and I thought I would wait until he started moving again. When the rope moved again I trudged forward after it, slowly.But the maiden absolutely refused to attend to her father’s words, and at length, in despair, the grand-vizir was obliged to give way, and went sadly to the palace to tell the Sultan that the following evening he would bring him Scheherazade. I cried that night for the terrible waste. In the morning, just as the sun was 140 rising, I carried her body down to the stream. And then I dug her a grave and buried her and afterwards I watched the flow of the stream until it was time for me to go away for the last time.
Full of foreboding, I ran downstairs as in a nightmare, wondering who had died this time. Father’s chauffeur assured me everyone was healthy. This dilemma stayed with me the whole time that I was in Greenland. I understand the harshness of life in the Arctic and the needs of the hunters and their families to hunt and live on animals and sea mammals that we demand to be protected because of their beauty. And I know that one cannot afford to be sentimental in the Arctic. ‘How can you possibly eat seal?’ I have been asked over 60 and over again. True, the images that bombarded us several years ago of men battering seals for their fur hasn’t helped the issue of polar hunting, but the Inughuit do not kill seals using this method, nor do they kill for sport. They use every part of the animals they kill, and most of the food in Thule is still brought in by the hunter-gatherers and fishermen. Imported goods can only ever account for part of the food supply; there is still only one annual supply ship that makes it through the ice to Qaanaaq, and the small twice-weekly plane from West Greenland can only carry a certain amount of goods. Hunting is still an absolute necessity in Thule. Last night there was resentment in some quarters that the men’s adventure had cost the taxpayers of Britain and Chile tens of thousands of pounds. Estimates from some of the world’s best climate scientists — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — suggest that the average global temperature will have risen between 2.5C and 10.4C by 2100. No, Okeke, listen to me. I don’t want to live, you hear? Now that I have seen you I am happy. Go, and leave me in peace.’One potential trigger could be the release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried on the sea floor. Currently these deposits are frozen, but if the oceans warm sufficiently they could melt, burping vast quantities of methane into the atmosphere. Scientists fear that this sudden release may cause a runaway greenhouse effect. She replied: ‘It vexes me that I haven’t got a single piece of jewellery, not one stone, that I can put on. I’ll look like a church mouse. I’d almost as soon not go to the reception.’ We’ll see about it later,” Father cut in. “You must sleep alone hereafter.” Swami realized that the matter had gone beyond his control: from a challenge it had become a plain command; he knew his father’s tenacity at such moments.
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