Saturday, July 12, 2008

12 - The Bush Train to Dar es Salam

pg 252: in Tanzania "This was another haunted border post...that the safari-going tourists who flew into the international airport at Arusha would never see."

*the water - Bill said even the bottled water that wasn't Aque Se was not to be trusted

watched pick up soccer kids pg 153-4

*when I go to write about soccer in Timor - Rainbow Field, the girls, the Ministry game - I should include why I love the sport, how easily I am drawn to it, participate in it - should I start by writing this chapter?

Theroux put it nicely: "By any reckoning, these children were playing and laughing in one of the more desperate provinces of a semi-derelict country."

pg 261: Heart of Darkness put forth the wide-spread belief that Africans were cannibals - not true, Theroux says

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