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Isak Dinesen – or, Karen von Blixen.

20-Jun-15

Ivdel’ June 15th, Dulles Airport. Starting Out of Africa, which features the untranslated epigraph EQUITARE, ARCUM TENDERE, VERITATEM DICERE. I have to admit it’s hard not to love anyone who starts a book with those words. “To ride a horse, to shoot the bow, to speak the truth.”  It’s from Herodotus, describing the Persians – he […]