URudyard Kipling Wasweleka ngosuku olufana nanamhlanje ngo-1936 eLondon. Yenye ye ababhali abakhulu kulwimi lwesiNgesi, kumabali akhe nangokwemibongo yakhe. Wayekwangumntu ophikisanayo kwiimbono zakhe zama impiriyali kwaye wachitha iminyaka yokuqala yobuntwana bakhe eIndiya. Kodwa into esishiyeke nayo ngumsebenzi onezona zihloko zaziwayo kwimbali yoncwadi, ezifana Incwadi yehlathi, kim o Abaphathi Abangoyikiyo. Namhlanje ukukhumbula kuhamba oku Ukukhetha ibinzana yaleyo misebenzi.
Rudyard Kipling — Amabinzana akhethiweyo
isibane esicimayo
- Kufuneka ufunde ukuxolela indoda xa isemathandweni.
- Sonke siziqithi sikhala ubuxoki omnye komnye kwiilwandle zokungaqondani.
- Ihlabathi lihle kakhulu, kwaye liyoyikeka kakhulu, kwaye alikhathali ngobomi bakho, obam okanye nayiphi na enye.
- Ndinematshisi nesalfure yam, kwaye ndiza kuzenzela esam isihogo.
- Kunzima ukuhlala wedwa ebumnyameni, ukubhidanisa imini nobusuku; ukulala ngenxa yokudinwa emini emaqanda, nokuvuka ungaphumli kwingqele yesifingo.
Incwadi yehlathi
- Ipakethi kufuneka iqaphele yonke into. Kufuneka umbonise eli ntshontsho lomntu. Ngaba usenaso isigqibo esiqinileyo sokuhlala naye?
- Thula, sithandwa sam, ukuba ubusuku bukhule.
- Unokuzithemba kangangokuba ungakhathali kwaphela. Obunye ubungqina bokuba ungowoluntu. Kufuneka ulumke.
- Akuncedi nto ukuba yindoda xa ndingaluva ulwimi oluthethwa ngamadoda.
- Intliziyo yakho inkulu kwaye ulwimi lwakho lunobuchule. Phakathi kwezinto ezimbini uya kude kakhulu.
- Unokuzithemba kangangokuba ungakhathali kwaphela. Obunye ubungqina bokuba ungowoluntu. Kufuneka ulumke.
- Amarhamncwa ayazi ukuba umntu sesona silwanyana singenakuzikhusela kwindalo. Ayiloxhoba elifanelwe ngumzingeli oqhayisa ngokuba ngomnye.
- Umntu oxokayo uxoka kuphela xa ethemba ukuba bayakukholelwa kuye.
- Musa ukuba nomsindo. Obo ngokwenene bobona bugwala bubi.
- Ehlathini, nezona zilwanyana zincinci zinokuba lixhoba.
- Lala ngoxolo, kungabikho kulila, kungabikho maphupha azalise ulwandle ngobukrakra.
- Kuba amandla epakethe asengcukani, nokomelela kwengcuka kusengxoweni.
- Uyindoda nyani ngoku. Awuseyiyo ithole lomntu. Akusekho ndawo yakho ehlathini. Vumela iinyembezi zigele, Mowgli.
Abaphathi Abangoyikiyo
- Mna ke, ndifuna inkululeko okanye ukufa.
- Amadoda aqhele ukutya kwiitafile ezincinci ngexesha lezaqhwithi ezinamandla anemikhwa ecocekileyo nebuthathaka.
- Intliziyo yakho yophuka kukulila kakhulu. Uthixo uyayazi ukuba nam ndinazo nezizathu zokulila andizenzi...
- Akuncedi nto ukundalela ukwenza into endiyifunayo… Abaselula basoloko benembeko kubantu abadala kwaye abadala basoloko bekulungele ukuyixabisa le mbeko.
- Abafana abahle abakhweleyo, njengam, njengawe, uManuel noPenny, bayibhetshi yesibini. Sitya sele begqibile abokuqala. Ziintlanzi ezindala, ezincinci nezishwabeneyo. Yiyo ke loo nto belungiselelwe bona kuqala, nto leyo abangayifanelanga.
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- Akukho sono sinzulu njengokungazi. Hlala ukhumbula oku.
- Awunakukhetha ukuKhululwa kwaye kwangaxeshanye uhlale ulikhoboka kwizinto eziyolisayo zobomi.
- Imfundo, ukuba ilungile, yeyona ntsikelelo inkulu. Kungenjalo ngamampunge.
- Amadoda afana namahashe. Ngamanye amaxesha zidinga ityuwa, kwaye ukuba aziyifumani emkhumbini ziya kuhamba ziyikhothe emhlabeni.
- Umhlaba wawulungile, umhlaba ococekileyo: ingelulo ukhula olutsha, oluthi ngenyaniso yokuphila nje selukwisiqingatha sokufa, kodwa umhlaba ozele lithemba oqulethe imbewu yobomi bonke.
- Abo babuza bethe cwaka balamba.