Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] 1885-1962./
Created | Updated Apr 17, 2005
Isak Dinesen
[Karen Blixen]
1885-1962
What is man, when you come to think him upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
Seven Gothic tales [1934]
I had seen a herd of elephant traveling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
Out of Africa [1937], pt. I, ch.1
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