[lit-ideas] Re: Children of the Sun
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:14:13 EDT
In a message dated 10/30/2004 2:43:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> JL writes:
>
>> Geary knows more about this stuff.<
>
> Sans doute. But where _is_ Geary?
>
Unsubscribed so that he can scribe. He'll be back. Meanwhile, he has sent
me strict instructions on how you are properly to be entertained.
I hope when he comes he either refutes or confirms (or both, he'd say)
Ritchie's association of Gothic "kilbath", womb, with "killing", as in "honour
killing". I was recently reading the biography of Beryl Merkham (born Rutland,
first 'aviatrix' Abingdon-Halifax, etc.) She is "Felicity" in "Out of Africa"
and possibly features in "White Mischief" -- a Brit film -- too. Anyhow, this
is what the biographer wrote about the Nairobi scene:
"Paddy, the unusual companion of the Elkingtons' only child Margaret, was a
huge black-maned lion. He was the only survivor of a litter of three cubs, the
offspring of a lioness shot by accident (Even in those days, when the
accounts of killing 'big game' read like unmitigated carnage, it was
considered
wrong or 'unsporting' to kill any animal 'in milk'." (p. 27).
The book features photographs of Prince Henry "with the lion he killed
whilest on safari in 1928" and a similar photo (complete with dead lion) of
Bror
Blixen; Edward, Prince of Wales, and Denys Finch Hatton -- the notorious
Nairobi bisexual. (Played by Robert Redford in the film).
Cheers,
JL
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