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Pour libation, summon the gods,utter sacred words, assemble diviners and sorcerers recapture the present, make peace, return to the earth,the spell
As The Crow Flies (2001)
If you want to love ,Do so to the ends of the earth With no shortcuts Do so as the crow flies.
As The Crow Flies (2001)
But sometimes I say to myself, ‘There, Afri-cans are fighting, dying and I am doing not h-ing, My life is sheltered in the heart of this cityof stone. I just don’t know, I just don’t know.
As The Crow Flies (2001)
I think of my country, far away, and my eyes open beyond space.
As The Crow Flies (2001)
We live in a world where we can tell neither head nor tail. We live in a world that jeers at you and proffers insults, an incestuous world that robs you of hope.
As The Crow Flies (2001)
As the dream of my country, which obsesses me all the time. I carry it with me all day. At night, it lies next to me, making love to me.
As The Crow Flies (2001)
I check to see if there is any mail for me. Stamps from my coun-try. I pick up the newspaper. Here, there is a great dealof talk about South Africa
As The Crow Flies (2001)
It is definitely a century that hangs its head in shame. Our elders have been called impotent, and we are accused of being ‘limp’…
As The Crow Flies (2001)
We must perform cleansing rites. Make the necessary sacrifices. We must replant our huge trees that have been uprooted, replenish our sacred forests that have been decimated.
As The Crow Flies (2001)
We spoke of conquest. We spoke of destruc-tion. We spoke of boredom. And he told mehow he was finding life painful, of his inter-minable languor, and of his feeling of insatiable emptiness
As The Crow Flies (2001)
Somewhere, a young man wallows in his suffering - his wound so deep he cannot draw a distinction between love and destruction. When he fights, he wounds his adversary like a fighter in search of victory.
As The Crow Flies (2001)
He left his vast country inAfrica. Now he lives in the big city of stone. And it isbetter for him, this exile. An exile where the inhabi-tants have respect for a white stick, where the stateensures his wellbeing and where facilities enable himto read and write
As The Crow Flies (2001)
You should listen to those whose voices remain unheard although the wisdom they carry is shaped by their closeness to the earth. No refined language but the pace of life at a gallop refashioned outmoded images, well-worn phrases, and ways of thinking that are out of date.
As The Crow Flies (2001)