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In my teens I discovered Africa in Literature. There are a lot of Hunting tales and I ultimately wound up spending a goodly number of years in Francophone Africa where I can still be found today. But for me three books read early on are still the best:
The Turning Wheels, by Stuart Cloete - the story of the vortrekers. There is an overwhelming sense of the vastness and color of the Veld. I read that book when I was 14...some terrible scenes like when a man trapped in a tree by a musk ox has his foot wedge by a branch and the ox licks the sole off he boot and the skin off the foot.....
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen: The first line of the book remains with me to this day: "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills". There was something about Kenya in the pre-WWI era that is just incredibly romantic. The movie was good. The book is timeless........ I too via literature discovered Africa, of which I really had not the slightest idea, in my teens. My English teacher, thru a change of life early on, had decided she would expand our small town minds by making us dissect every word and phrase of the movie. I know it like back of hand, have lived it and witnessed such Lion attack and am forever changed as well as forever grateful. I watch it ever chance, just like a recent viewing, and watch it as if it were the 1st viewing. Pure LIFE it is..... Serbus, Raimey rse
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Baron Bror Von Blixen (my kinda guy)--
RWTF Not a noble claim, Fox. JR
Be strong, be of good courage.
God bless America, long live the Republic.
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I should have qualified that, John. I meant from the PWH and gun-toting kinda guy- He was certainly not a good and faithful husband to his wife--RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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the anglo male characters in the story are mostly lacking in nobility...
in contrast to the afro male characters in the story who seem quite noble...
which may have been one of the under lying themes the author was addressing...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Just wonderin', is all: Edmundo- have you read Joseph Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness"? Raimey, just wonderin'- how you as a lad growning up would know if your female teacher was going through her "change of life?" Did she actually tell this most personal of feminine traumas to her class? I can only shudder to think about that scenario. RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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François:
No, she was going thru a change but @ a very early age. Fresh out of college and married, she left her husband for a Lad @ the Local Boys Ranch. She came in one day looking like Mormon, not that there's anything wrong with it, and the next like a Flower Child or similar.
Serbus,
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foxie, have not read conrad's book...watt is the point of your question?
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Because Ed the book was about European settlers in Kenya. And, you know squat all about African societies yet you chose to make a lovely book all about modern day political correctness. One day I'll sit down with you and try to explain the Mauritanian split between Bidan Maure (white Moors) and the Senegal valley black Africa tribes, the peuhl, Toukouleur, Wolof and Soninke and the castes and slaves that exist in all four, Or the 250 different languages spoken in Chad and slaving raids that take place to this day. I feel I need to go wash my hands. - Save us all from your crusading ignorance.
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Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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well argo, "out of africa" is a work of fiction...and as such, we are allowed, i think, to pontificate about the possible themes pursued by the author...
and to expand this thread to include the past and present state of affairs in kenya, is well, far beyond me...nor do i care....
lets instead, talk about the guns in the movie...
in the lion killing scene, he is carrying an h&h double rifle?
an she, a rigby bolt gun, built on a small frame mauser action?
correct or not?
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Merci beaucoup, mon bon ami( and not a household cleaning powder0-- I added that for Edmundo's benefit Raimey
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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