Head above the water
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Dit blijkt een autobiografie te zijn en daar hou ik niet van.
Journal Entry 2 by Hellehond at Strandpaviljoen Zoomers in Castricum, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Sunday, June 20, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (6/20/2010 UTC) at Strandpaviljoen Zoomers in Castricum, Noord-Holland Netherlands
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Voor de Castricummeeting
Taken from the Castricum meeting as I recognised Buchi Emecheta's name, and saw it was about culture shock in England, which always interest me. I didn't realise it was an autobiography, so that makes it even more interesting.
Reserved for Loveamystery's Two Worlds Virtual Book Box.
Chosen from the Book Box by Loveamystery. Now to read it before sending!
Notes to be updated:
Description of England as “a country where people cry in their hearts and not with their eyes”, and describes it as “this indifferent society”. The experience of arriving into the cold weather of England: “It felt like walking into the inside of a grave.”
p.18 – “I was the daughter of scantily educated parents who came out of their innocent yet sophisticated bush culture, ignorant of the so-called civilized world. Yet in communal caring, and mutual sharing, and language gestures and music-making, they are unsurpassable in their sheer sophistication. But they had to leave all this, my parents, in search of this New Thing that was coming from places afar. ….. I was trapped in this New Thing.”
Describes the impact of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech: “He has suddenly woken one morning with a vision of the River Tiber bubbling with blood. And he claimed that if the blacks were left to stay in England, the streets of England would be flowing with blood too. He did not explain whose blood it was that was going to flow, whether that of the whites or the blacks, but he successfully injected anxiety and insecurity into the minds and homes of blacks, and made some liberal white British rather uneasy.” Parallel with Geert Wilders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Description of England as “a country where people cry in their hearts and not with their eyes”, and describes it as “this indifferent society”. The experience of arriving into the cold weather of England: “It felt like walking into the inside of a grave.”
p.18 – “I was the daughter of scantily educated parents who came out of their innocent yet sophisticated bush culture, ignorant of the so-called civilized world. Yet in communal caring, and mutual sharing, and language gestures and music-making, they are unsurpassable in their sheer sophistication. But they had to leave all this, my parents, in search of this New Thing that was coming from places afar. ….. I was trapped in this New Thing.”
Describes the impact of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech: “He has suddenly woken one morning with a vision of the River Tiber bubbling with blood. And he claimed that if the blacks were left to stay in England, the streets of England would be flowing with blood too. He did not explain whose blood it was that was going to flow, whether that of the whites or the blacks, but he successfully injected anxiety and insecurity into the minds and homes of blacks, and made some liberal white British rather uneasy.” Parallel with Geert Wilders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Released 13 yrs ago (12/22/2010 UTC) at Tunbridge Wells, Kent United Kingdom
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Posted at Southborough Post Office before returning to Holland for Christmas. Happy Christmas, LoveaMystery, and have a wonderful New Year in 2011.
This book has been released as part of the following BookCrossing challenges:
- The Ultimate Challenge - read and release books, with extra points for a monthly theme
- Pages Read Challenge - read a self-set target number of pages in 2010. My goal is 24,000.
- Set It Yourself Challenge
This book has been released as part of the following BookCrossing challenges:
- The Ultimate Challenge - read and release books, with extra points for a monthly theme
- Pages Read Challenge - read a self-set target number of pages in 2010. My goal is 24,000.
- Set It Yourself Challenge
I shall enjoy this one. Thank you bookguide.
