lonely londoners quote Flashcards
(67 cards)
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“One grim winter evening when it had a kind of unrealness about London, with the fog sleeping restlessly over the city.”
“Moses Aloetta hop on a number 46 bus at the corner of chap style road and westborne grove”
“He take out a white handkerchief, he blow his nose and it turn black, he watch it and curse the fog”
“old Britain too diplomatic to do anything drastic like stop them from coming to the mother country”
“the old waterloo is a place of arrival and departure, it’s a place where you see people crying goodbye and kissing welcome. It have some fellas who in Britain long, but they have the habit of going there, to watch their countrymen coming in the train. It have a soft feeling”
“It had a Jamaican fella who living in Brixton that come to the station to see what tenants he could pick up. Sometimes he put a bed and a chair in two or three big room, five six fellars for a room. Whenever a boat-train come, he hustling to pick up fellas, telling them how Brixton is a nice area and they have plenty Jamaicans down there”
“Its a shame to leave she alone to dead in Kingston with nobody to look after she. Tolroy start to shiver in a fright”
“he can’t realize that all these people in his hands, in London, in the grim Winter with nowhere to go to stay”
“‘But they say it more work in England, and when I heard that Tolroy getting five pound a week, I had to agree.’”
“‘Can you tell me why so many Jamaicans are leaving for England?”
“Now, Jamaican families come to Britain.”
“‘You not feeling cold, old man,’ Moses say eyeing the specimen. ‘No, this is the way the weather does be in the winter? Is not so bad man’”
“‘I ain’t have any luggage, when I start a work I will buy some things’”
“that’s it was, when Sir Henry Oliver Esquire. alias Galahad, descend upon London to swell the population by one”
“‘Galahad hand Moses a shilling and watch him put it in the slot in the meter and light the gas”
“‘Moses have a shilling on him, but he have a feeling if he don’t tap Galahad early, he won’t have a chance to do it later”
“Listen, you can stay here tonight, but tomorrow if the landlord don’t agree for you to have this room you will have to find a place and also you have to look for work. Every man on his own here, it have no shit over here like both of we is Trinidadian and we have to help each other out”
“Over here is the old English diplomacy. You come into a restaurant and they politely tell you to haul”
“there is a restaurant run by a Pole in Ipswich, go and see if they serve you. The hurtful part is, we is British subjects, and he is only a foreigner. It is we who bleed to make this country prosperous”
“a lot of parasites muddy the water for the boys”
“the sun shining but Galahad never seen the sun look like how it looking now, no heat from it”
“‘They’ll have to learn to do better you know’”
“‘We haven’t got anything for you at the moment, will you go to the next building and register and get your insurance card’” Ministry of Labour
“When they enter a kind of atmosphere hit Galahad hard so. It’s a kind of place where hate and disgust and avarice and Malice and sympathy and sorrow and pity all mix up”
“The floor dirty with footprint and
cigarette butt. “
