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Sason:
--- Quote from: Kerry on January 17, 2010, 09:17:14 pm ---Thanks for the warning, Sason. I might borrow it from the local library, instead of buying a copy. :-\
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That would be a wise thing to do, imo. Should you like it, you can always buy it after reading it.
Kerry:
"It was getting towards the end of winter, which meant that the temperature of the air was just right, and the sky was bright, pale blue, and cloudless. There was a slight smell of wood-smoke in the air, a smell that tugged at her heart because it reminded her of mornings around the fire in Mochudi. She would go back there, she thought, when she had worked long enough to retire. She would buy a house, or build one perhaps, and ask some of her cousins to live with her, They would grow melons on the lands and might even buy a small shop in the village; and every morning she would sit in front of her house and sniff at the wood-smoke and look forward to spending the day talking with her friends. How sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this, and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all that money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass? None, in her view; none at all, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person who understood, who realised how things really were; but these people were few and far between and the other white people treated them with suspicion."
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Kerry on February 04, 2010, 09:50:34 am ---"It was getting towards the end of winter, which meant that the temperature of the air was just right, and the sky was bright, pale blue, and cloudless. There was a slight smell of wood-smoke in the air, a smell that tugged at her heart because it reminded her of mornings around the fire in Mochudi. She would go back there, she thought, when she had worked long enough to retire. She would buy a house, or build one perhaps, and ask some of her cousins to live with her, They would grow melons on the lands and might even buy a small shop in the village; and every morning she would sit in front of her house and sniff at the wood-smoke and look forward to spending the day talking with her friends. How sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this, and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all that money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass? None, in her view; none at all, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person who understood, who realised how things really were; but these people were few and far between and the other white people treated them with suspicion."
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
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Some Africans have such a separate idea of time. Yes, many 'white' people consider 'watching the grass grow' or in this case, 'watching cows eat the grass' an activity they want to avoid.
Kerry:
'Come again, Sir. I don't get you.'
'I said Death. I said, do you think about Death a lot?'
'Why, no. Hardly at all. Why?'
'The Future - that's where Death is.'
'Oh - yeah. Yeah - maybe you've got a point there.'
A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood
Kerry:
"Several quiet days ensued, in which, once again, they were without clients, and could bring the administrative affairs of the agency up to date. Mma Ramotswe wrote letters to old friends and prepared accounts for the impending end of the financial year. She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted for infinitely more than a vigorously healthy balance sheet. In fact, she thought, annual accounts should include an item specifically headed Happiness, alongside expenses and receipts and the like. That figure in her accounts would be a very large one, she thought."
Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith
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