perhaps it is somewhat like being an explorer and scientist
of history...today received new reports, mailed gifts at a planned party:
The
Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age
(1969) by Victor Kiernan;
Seven Types of Adventure Tale: An Etiology of a Major
Genre (1991) by Martin Green;
Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myth of Orient (1994)
by Rana Kabbani;
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (1997) by
M. W. Lewis and K. E. Wigen;
The Japanese Discovery of Europe (1952) by Donald
Keene; and
Inventing Africa (2011) by Robin Derricourt.
hopefully the next few weeks will be as engaging, enlightening
and satisfying as these titles suggest. the goal being insights into our human story...like historical (in)sightseeing.
will only understanding will be changed? or --
rhetorically, but really to escape the daily mundane -- better go
to a series of Bach concerts, a Viennese ball, or a "magic theater"?
or again to Optima Pustyn or Dornach?
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