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Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.… (más)
La única idea que Mehring, un industrial cincuentón y aún atractivo para las mujeres, tiene por clara en su vida es la que debe conservar a toda costa su modo de vida. Ni su amante izquierdista, ni su hijo —un colegial presuntuoso que lleva pelo largo, consiguen socavar su convicción de que tiene el derecho inalienable a seguir en posesión de sus bienes. Y nadie parece cuestionarlo : ni los trabajadores negros que cuidan de su finca en el Transvaal, ni los indios que venden los productos de su tierra, ni los hacenderos boers que le consideran un simple aficionado en los asuntos del campo, ni los negros que viven segregados en ghettos entre la finca y la ciudad. Tan sólo la presencia de un hombre muerto, abandonado cerca de un río, suscita en él cierta inquietud… Como intenso contrapunto a sus recuerdos y fantasías, están las vidas de los que sirven, pero que apenas reparan en él, y también esa otra misteriosa presencia en la serena belleza de la tierra a la que todos se aferran. ( )
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I must have been almost crazy to start out alone like that on my bicycle pedalling into the tropics carrying a medicine for which no one had found the disease and hoping I would make it in time I passed through a paper village under glass where the explorers first found silence and taught it to speak where old men where sitting in front of their houses killing sand without mercy brothers I shouted to them tell me who moved the river where can I find a good place to drown
Richard Shelton, 'The Tattooed Desert'
I pray for corn, that may people may come to this village of yours and make a noise, and glorify you.
...I ask also for children, that this village may have a large population, and that your name may never come to an end.
...once at night he was told to awake and go down to the river and he would find an antelope caught in a Euphorbia tree; and to go and take it.
'So,' said he, 'I awoke. When I had set out, my brother, Umankamane, followed me. He threw a stone and struck an aloe. I was frightened, and ran back to him and chided him, saying, why did you frighten me when I was about to lay hold on my antelope?'
...That was the end of it, and he was not again told to be anything to go and fetch the antelope. They went home, there being nothing there.
The Amatongo, they who are beneath. Some natives say, so called, because they have been buried beneath the earth. But we cannot avoid believing that we have an intimation of an old faith in a Hades or Tartarus which has become lost and is no longer understood.
Thus it is with black men: they did not come into being when it was said, 'There are no Amantongo.' They came into being when it was already sayd, 'There are Amantongo.' But we do not know why the man which first came into being said, 'There are Amantongo.'
...since the white men came and the missionaries, we have heart it said that there is a God.
So we came out possessed of what sufficed us, we thinking that we possessed all tings, that we were wise, that there was nothing we did not know...We saw that, in fact, we black men came out without a single thing: we came out naked; we left everything behind, because we came out first. But as for white men...we saw that we came out in a hurry: but they waited for all things, that they might not leave any behind.
...the heaven was hard and it did not rain. The people persecuted him exceedingly. When he was persecuted I saw him and pitied him for I saw men come even by night and smite his doorway with clubs, and take him out of his house...And on another year, when they saw that the heaven wished to destroy the corn, they hated him exceedingly...I heard it said that it rained excessively that it might cover the dead body of Umkqaekana with earth. I heard it said they poisoned him and did not stab him. I heard it said that those people were troubled, for their gardens were carried away by a flood.
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Pale freckled eggs.
Citas
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He took possession of this earth, theirs; one of them.
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.
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