pg 321: reveals what got him kicked out of PC (he adds that the complete story is in his essay "The Killing of Hastings Banda" in Sunrise with Seamonsters.
pg 322: a former student now teaches - "That had been on of my more modest goals." exactly
of his youth in Malawi - pg 324: "I had learned what many others had discovered before me, that Africa for all its perils represented wilderness and possibility. Not only did I have freedom to write in Africa, I had something new to write about."
pg 325: compares aid workers to safari-tourists
he joined PC to avoid the draft
he liked the rawness, the possibility
pg 326: "I liked the sweet somnolence of rural Africa, which I regarded with a sense of safety."
pg 328: "Aid is one of the main reasons for underdevelopment in Africa." - Dr. Jonathan Banda
pg 330: visits his old school and home - both in bad shape
* I think if we returned to Timor any time soon the family would shout and jump and run to meet us
he has been forgotten, compares himself to a ghost, and that may have just pissed him off, though he doesn't admit it
pg 335: "You're planting a seed! some people had said. But the seed had not sprouted and now it was decayed and probably moribund."
pg 336: "I did not know the answer, I didn't even know the question." - he feels he had clarity that only "Africans could fix their problems."
he ends by feeling physically sick
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment