The Lieutenant Quotes for Memorisation

Language Q1 P1 (symbol of notebooks)

1. "The books were like the jaws of some ingenious machine. Between them they would crack open the nut of this language."

2. "in the top drawer of the dresser in the corner"..."never got them out, never read them," ..."the water... gleaming and shifting."

Language Q1 P2 (symbol of water)

3. "Trying to hear its form was like trying to take hold of running water."

4. "A boundary was being crossed and erased. Like ink in water, one language was melting into another."

Language Q1 P3 (Rooke’s final interactions with Tagaran)

5. "You did not learn a language without entering into a relationship with the people who spoke it with you."

6. "He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words."

Language Q2 P1 (symbol of notebooks)

1. "The books were like the jaws of some ingenious machine. Between them they would crack open the nut of this language."

2. "in the top drawer of the dresser in the corner"..."never got them out, never read them," ..."the water... gleaming and shifting."

Language Q2 P2 (symbol of astronomy)

3. "a journey not simply into the language... but into the cosmos they inhabited"

4. "Tagaran was teaching him a word, and by it she was showing him a world."

Language Q2 P3 (Rooke’s final interactions with Tagaran)

5. You did not learn a language without entering into a relationship with the people who spoke it with you."

6. "He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words."

Language Q4 P1 (symbol of notebooks)

1. "The books were like the jaws of some ingenious machine. Between them they would crack open the nut of this language."

2. "in the top drawer of the dresser in the corner"..."never got them out, never read them," ..."the water... gleaming and shifting."

Language Q4 P2 (symbol of water)

3. "Trying to hear its form was like trying to take hold of running water."

4. "A boundary was being crossed and erased. Like ink in water, one language was melting into another."

Language Q4 P3 (symbol of skin)

5. "He felt her fingers pressing and smoothing, transferring their heat to his... his skin had taken on the warmth of hers so he no longer knew which was hers and which his."

6. "He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words."

The Other Q1 P1 (symbol of mirrors)

1. "He saw his own excitement reflected on the other man's face, the same eagerness to enter the unknown, to be amazed by difference."

2. "For the first time, he and Tagaran were on the same side of the mirror of language... Understanding went in both directions. Once two people shared language, they could no longer use it to hide."

The Other Q1 P2 (symbol of skin)

3. "He felt her fingers pressing and smoothing, transferring their heat to his... his skin had taken on the warmth of hers so he no longer knew which was hers and which his."

4. "He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words."

The Other Q1 P3 (symbol of water)

3. "Trying to hear its form was like trying to take hold of running water."

4. "A boundary was being crossed and erased. Like ink in water, one language was melting into another."

The Other Q2 P1 (early engagement with the Cadigal)

1. "My intimacy with the native men... is of the most inestimable value for my little narrative."

2. "The books were like the jaws of some ingenious machine. Between them they would crack open the nut of this language."

The Other Q2 P2 (attitudes towards Tagaran)

3. "My word, but you are ahead of the rest of us here... What a sly dog you are."

4. "Tagaran was teaching him a word, and by it she was showing him a world."

The Other Q2 P3 (viewpoints on the punitive expedition)

5. "You could think of it as a piece of theatre, Rooke, if you wished."

6. "Could he do that without thinking of what was in there: a human head, a human face... the human soul behind it..."

The Other Q4 P1 (symbol of mirrors)

1. "He saw his own excitement reflected on the other man's face, the same eagerness to enter the unknown, to be amazed by difference."

2. "For the first time, he and Tagaran were on the same side of the mirror of language... Understanding went in both directions. Once two people shared language, they could no longer use it to hide."

The Other Q4 P2 (symbol of water)

3. "Trying to hear its form was like trying to take hold of running water."

4. "A boundary was being crossed and erased. Like ink in water, one language was melting into another."

The Other Q4 P3 (symbol of skin)

5. "He felt her fingers pressing and smoothing, transferring their heat to his... his skin had taken on the warmth of hers so he no longer knew which was hers and which his."

6. "He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words."