"Out of Africa" [.]

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<Denys and flying>:

• Denys had a trait of character which to me was very precious, he liked to hear a story told. For I have always thought that I might have cut a figure at the time of the plague of Florence.
• "I cannot come," I said, "I have got a tea-party up at the house."
  "But we will go and see (the Bufffalo) and be back in a quarter of an hour," said he.
  In the thicket they stopped and kept close together, it looked as if a small glade in the hill had been paved with dark grey stones. Here they believed themselves to be covered to the view... We flew up and away. It was like having been taken into the heart of the Ngong Hills by a secret unknown road. <> When I came back to my tea-party, the teapot on the stone table was still so hot that I burned my fingers on it.
• It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in all their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.

<Winding down...>:

• They have got to accept as success what others warrant to be so, and to take their happiness, and even their own selves, at the quotation of the day.
• That bad time blessed us and went away.
  My life, I will not let you go except you bless me, but then I will let you go.
• Other things were sold out of the house, packed and sent off, so that the house.. became das Ding an sich, noble like a skull, a cool and roomy place to dwell in, with an echo to it, and the grass of the lawn growing long up to the doorstep.
• (Farah) was much concerned about my old shoes, and confided to me that he was going to pray to God every day that thye might last until I got to Paris.
• The outline of the mountain was slowly smoothed and levelled out by the hand of distance.

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__ 'Have the gramophone records from 'Petrouchka' arrived by the last mail?"
__ The Indians of Nairobi dominated the big Native business quarter of the Bazaar.
__ The Somali are a seafaring nation.. in the old days, great pirates of the Red Sea.
__ The mind of the little old Kikuyu, upon the road across the plains, was running upon the same line as that of Brillat-Savarin, who said
that if the Revolution had lasted five years longer, the art of making a chicken-ragout would have been lost.

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