"I felt smaller and more disoriented here in this huge city than I had in the Elephant Marsh...athwart a dugout canoe and slapping my paddle at the water hyacinths." (397)
begins reflecting on trip - "it seems to me a safari that had been worth taking, an ideal picnic." (398)
pg 405: Nadine Gordimer's bio - he meets up with her
"how nice it would be, I thought, if someone reading the narrative of my African trip felt...it was the next best thing to being there." (406)
I find myself tired of this journey, anxious for its end - I know he wants the reader to feel "as if they were there," but I don't think this reader-fatigue was what he had in mind
pg 412: he almost goes to a soccer match but instead talks to another ex-prisoner - I wanted the soccer match! and I could hardly pay attention afterward, regretting his decision! (though there was a riot there, he finds later)
history of Robben Island - prison and prisoners
runs across some paleontologists - including Lee Berger (In the Footsteps of Eve) who theorizes humans first existed and survived as cooperative fishermen - perhaps the most intriguing person Theroux met, to me
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