So closing in on Karen Blixen's perceptions in Out of Africa, his camera tried to emulate her metaphor "giraffes as rare flowers," Julian Huxley's "volcanoes like nipples" (at Lake Navasha) in Africa View, and a scene of Maasai bloodletting of cows in Robert Ruark's Something of Value. Blixen and Hemingway were his favorites.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago)