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molla (6885) 2007-09-14 8:34

hejsan Eric

"Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of over-shadowed distances. On silvery sand-banks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off for ever from everything you had known once -- somewhere -- far away -- in another existence perhaps. There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare for yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. I got used to it afterwards; I did not see it any more; I had no time. I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to discern, mostly by inspiration, the signs of hidden banks; I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I had to keep a lookout for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming.


Heart of Darkness (Conrad, Joseph)

MarcT (21103) 2007-09-19 5:29

Salut Eric,
cette photo souffre un peu de la miniaturisation des galleries car dès qu'on l'ouvre, elle éclate en un bouquet de couleurs et de contastes.
Bien à toi
Marc
PS: oui, je suis contaminé par TE à cause de gens comme toi...

alainh (35381) 2007-09-22 0:30

bonjour Eric
je decouvre ta serie africaine et je me suis plu à me balader sur cette autre planete !! cette image haute en couleurs n'est pas du tout l'Afique telle que je la pensais.
superbe !!
bon week-end à toi
amicalement
alain

siislam (290) 2008-01-18 16:55

Very nice picture, good perpective, well done.