I recall the Rumble in the Jungle. Rewatched it many times as there are things to learn from it. In May of 1974 I was a few months away from separating from the military. Now I live in the jungle -- the real one. It is an unforgiving place, and at this moment the heavens rumble with the promise, and threat, of tropical rain.
Though Papa Hemingway might well disagree, there is good reason that Africa is called the Dark Continent and the Serpent Kingdom. The continent's outlines reveal the profile visage of the devil himself. As the occult practioners claim, everything is observable 'in plain sight', if -- following the Bible -- one has the eyes to see.
An excellent essay, I will be exploring your site more in future.
Thanks for your comment. I just finished Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," a book about a man who disappeared into the Alaskan wilderness and found it both beautiful and deadly. I can well imagine (but only imagine) the mix of promise and threat there.
Oh yes, Krakauer's book is wonderful, I would say, fascinating. Along the same lines but with a different focus is Michael Finkel's "Stranger in the Woods." That book too had me shaking my head, but I really thought very highly of it. Finkel's book has some compelling insights into hermits and others like the Desert Fathers. Krakauer's book has been turned into a fairly good movie, by the way.
I recall the Rumble in the Jungle. Rewatched it many times as there are things to learn from it. In May of 1974 I was a few months away from separating from the military. Now I live in the jungle -- the real one. It is an unforgiving place, and at this moment the heavens rumble with the promise, and threat, of tropical rain.
Though Papa Hemingway might well disagree, there is good reason that Africa is called the Dark Continent and the Serpent Kingdom. The continent's outlines reveal the profile visage of the devil himself. As the occult practioners claim, everything is observable 'in plain sight', if -- following the Bible -- one has the eyes to see.
An excellent essay, I will be exploring your site more in future.
Thanks for your comment. I just finished Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," a book about a man who disappeared into the Alaskan wilderness and found it both beautiful and deadly. I can well imagine (but only imagine) the mix of promise and threat there.
Outside the cocoon of the nanny-cities, one finds that beautiful but deadly is the way of this world. Was the Krakauer book a good read?
Oh yes, Krakauer's book is wonderful, I would say, fascinating. Along the same lines but with a different focus is Michael Finkel's "Stranger in the Woods." That book too had me shaking my head, but I really thought very highly of it. Finkel's book has some compelling insights into hermits and others like the Desert Fathers. Krakauer's book has been turned into a fairly good movie, by the way.
Much obliged, Allen. The Finkel tome sounds just right for my hermitage.
I enjoyed this mightily.