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Chargement... North-west by North (1935)par Dora Birtles
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Birtles was dedicated to her chosen craft of writing, which made me read her more critically than I might have otherwise. A random quotation of description gives the flavor of her prose; "...They are the cores of old volcanoes and they remain, rounded down by time but still malevolent in outline, like satiric old ladies with shawls about their humped shoulders, hinting of forgotten fierce ardours and bearing a mute testimony of the geological antiquity of the Australian continent." Well and good; not necessarily my taste but a good enough thing of its kind. So how could such a wordsmith produce poetry like this?
Rice Tafel
We had eaten heavily,/it was our first rice tafel./We had drunk appropriately,/it had been a farewell luncheon,/and pulling up the anchor at sunset/- for we had to get under weigh -/was an uncomfortable job,/and in the clear Banda air we were all a little tipsy.
Her friends didn't care for her poetry either, to her great despair. I will not comment on the attempt at stream of consciousness to depict the one time she got drunk on the trip. And having said all of this, some fascination remains in a real adventure to exotic places in a past that feels more than 70 years away. ( )