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Likely enough I would not have remained in Gafsa more than a couple of days. For it was my intention to go from England straight down to the oases of the Djerid where in olden days the fleets of Atlantis rode at anchor.
Effectively takes you to an interesting time, place, and people as seen, experienced, and meditated upon by a particluar kif-smoking rambler. Features some really nice writing at times. ( )
Norman Douglas was a racist old prick, who writes, for instance, about the necessity of beating Arab women into submission and the virtues of buying and selling them for a profit. Also, for travel literature, this is rather boring. He writes more about the history of places than about his actual experiences within them.
I wasn't surprised to learn after reading this book that he was convicted of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old boy. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Likely enough, I would not have remained in Gafsa more than a couple of days. For it was my intention to go from England straight down to the oases of Djerid, Tozeur and Nefta, a corner of Tunisia left unexplored during my last visit to that country--there, where the inland regions shelve down towards those mysterious depressions, the Chotts, dried-up oceans, they say, where in olden days the fleets of Atlantis rode at anchor...But
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
the flute, which ought to have supported the voice, was apparently dumb, although the artist puffed out his cheeks as if his life depended on it. Only after creeping quite close to the performers could I discern certain wailful breathings; this brave instrument, all splotched with variegated colours, gave forth a succession of anguished and asthmatic whispers, the very phantom of a song, like the wind sighing through the trees.
Take away from modern poetry what appeals to primitive man--the jingle and pathetic fallacy--and the residue, if any, would be better expressed in prose.
When a camel expires in the plain near some nomad's tents, they sometimes set a spring-trap for jackals near the carcase--they eat these beasts and sell their skin for a few francs; the traps are craftily concealed underground, with a little brushwood thrown over them to aid the decpetion. It is impossible to be aware of their existence. Bot woe betide the wanderer who steps on them! For the machine closes with the shock of an earthquake, a perfect volcano of dust and iron teeth leaping into the air. Its force is such that the jackal's leg is cut clean off, and he hops away on the remaining three. For this and other reasons, therefore, it is advisable not to approach too near a dead camel.
They led me to his house, which is one of the few two-storied buildingd of the town and lies in a squalid street of mud-dwellings. Villanously dirty walls surround a massive entrance-gate studded with nails and bands of iron, intervolved in artful designs. No bell, no knocker, no door-handle; only an impressive lock. At the sight of this doorway I paused--it was grim, claustral, almost menacing; there was an air of enchantment aboutthe mansion, as if once in a hundred years its forbidding portals might turn on their rusty hinges.
Four pipes, reverentially inhaled...it was almost too much, for a mere dilitantte.
But the companion had become quite silent. He was bewitched, apparently, by the rural charms of this place. At last he said, "If only I had brought some kif to smoke!"
"Africa," he went on, "attracts and interests me. At home I lose my personality and become a sheep in a herd, but here, in the desert, I can create and leave a mark"
For as it left the horizon, a counterfeit sun began to unroll itself from the true, as one might detach a petal from a rose; at first they clung together, but soon, with a wrench, parted company, and while the one soared aloft, the image remained below, weltering on the treacherous mere. For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced. It gave a prolonged shiver and sank, convulsed, into the earth.
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Likely enough I would not have remained in Gafsa more than a couple of days. For it was my intention to go from England straight down to the oases of the Djerid where in olden days the fleets of Atlantis rode at anchor.