“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training race-horses for a living, and still later scouting Tanganyika and the waterless bush country between the Tana and Athi Rivers, by aeroplane, for elephant, I remained so happily provincial I was unable to discuss the boredom of being alive with any intelligence until I had gone to London and lived there a year. Boredom, like hookworm, is endemic.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“If she could make them both irritated with her, chances are they would commiserate with each other. So it had always worked when they were boys.”
― The Liveship Traders Trilogy
― The Liveship Traders Trilogy
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