Scribbling the Cat
A Travel, History, Biography book. It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your...
When Alexandra Bo Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a tough bugger. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: Curiosity scibbled the cat, he told her. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendhip with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian War. A man of contradictions, K is battle-scarred and work-weathered, a born-again Christian and given to weeping for the failure of his romantic life and the burden of his memories. Driven by K's these memories of the war, they decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way, by travelling from Zambia through Zimbabwe and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. The result is a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse of life in Africa.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780330433990 / 330433997
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the odd small goat, surprised by so much unaccustomed water, died from disgust. Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless. Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try. Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat
"When I die and I go up there and Jesus Christ asks me what I did with my life, I'll say to him, 'I hope you have a long time to sit and listen, because do I have a story for you!'""Curiosity scribbled the cat."My husband read this when it was published back in 2004. Usually he forgets what a book is about in a year or so, sometimes... Alexandra Fuller is a white African who grew up during the Rhodesian War. She goes on a road trip with a charismatic but haunted veteran of the war, retracing his steps and confronting his demons. While you can't help questioning the author's sanity for taking this journey with someone who clearly has a screw loose, it is a close up... Written as a sequel to Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, this book paints a unique picture of contemporary Africa. Alexandra's (Bobo's) parents still live a hard-drinking life in Zambia, running a fish farm. While on a Christmas visit she meets K, then returns to do a road trip with him, seeking some explanation for the war that he...
