Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Soccer War, 1986
September 18, 2008
Having to do it myself
"I was driving along a road where they say no white man can come back alive. I was driving to see if a white man could, because I had to experience everything for myself. I know that a man shudders in the forest when he passes close to a lion. I got close to a lion so that I would know how it feels. I had to do it myself because I knew no one could describe it to me. And I cannot describe it myself. Nor can I describe a night in the Sahara. The stars over the Sahara are enormous. They sway above the sand like great chandeliers. The light of those stars is green. Night in the Sahara is as green as a Mazowsze meadow" (130).
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Keep in mind, Jane, that, unlike you and the rest of us, Ryszard Kapuscinski's a danger-courting journalist who covered 27 revolutions and was among the most celebrated war correspondents of his generation. For a story, he'd go practically anytwhere with practically nothing. Fortunately we don't have to do the same thing.
Wally Hubbard
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