And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa. - Karen Blixen

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.

Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life. ... The bowstring was released on the bridge at Eton, the arrow described its orbit, and hit the obelisk in the Ngong Hills.