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Can You Belong On A Different Continent? Or Is That Just Colonialism Talking?

04-Aug-15

Tây Ninh If you will indulge me, let me share with you a long excerpt from Karen (Isak) Dinesen, the beginning of her superb memoir Out of Africa. It is long and descriptive, but instructive, and I will have some things to say about it: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong […]

Pride and The Idea of God.

12-Jul-15

where to buy prednisone for dogs “The neighborhood of the Game Reserve and the presence, outside our boundary, of the big game, gave a particular character to the farm, as if we had been the neighbors of a great king. Very proud things were about, and made their nearness felt. The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, […]