Macbeth Sliced In Quotes

It was sort of like Macbeth, thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in Macbeth had been four little old ladies and if, instead of stirring cauldrons and intoning dread incantations, they had just welcomed Macbeth in and fed him turkey and rice and peas spread out on white china plates on a red-and-white patterned plastic tablecloth -- not to mention sweet potato pudding and spice cabbage -- and encouraged him to take second helpings, and thirds, and then, when Macbeth had declaimed that nay, he was stuffed nigh unto bursting and on his oath could truly eat no more, the witches had pressed upon him their own special island rice pudding and a large slice of Mrs. Bustamonte's famous pineapple upside-down cake, it would have been exactly like Macbeth.

The mountain top trapped him under the seabed, the very summit of what had been Ben Cral standing above the surface as a rocky mound now known as Cral’s Island. The demon remains buried to this day, struggling to escape from time to time and making the ground shake. Where Hurdy had sliced the remains of the mountain down the middle, the two peaks came to be called the Two Sisters and the molten rock thrown by Cral cooled to become the huge boulders that litter Hurdy’s Glen. Hamish had always loved the story and found himself wondering what Sally Paterson would make of it.