A Grave for a Dolphin
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Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:B000OIQJH6
Release Date:January 1956
Publisher:Andre Deutsch
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
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Reminiscences of an Italian Colonial Official
Published by Andy , 1 year ago
Had Kipling been Italian, he would've written: 'Oh North is North and South is South, and when they get it on, ah! The drama! The tragedy! The magic!'
Supposedly the title episode inspired Bowie to write "Heroes"; it's a story told at both second AND third hand about a lone Italian official who becomes the lover of an Eritrean girl whose other lover is a dolphin. Afterwards the young engineer returns to Italy knowing the rest of his life will be prosaic but forever affected by his experience of a different way of understanding the world.
Picture the Major sitting in his rattan chair at the club, sipping his whiskey & soda, saying: "Well the natives were rather quaint: I understand 'em, y'know, but 'there's more in Heaven and Earth', eh?"
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