Travels With Myself and Another: A Memoir by Gellhorn Martha

Author:Gellhorn, Martha [Gellhorn, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9781585420902
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Goodreads: 925368
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: 1979-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

There the diary finishes; now I am on my own, with a few fairly useless East African notes and my memory. The prospect is daunting. As near as I can figure, on a straight line basis, I drove some two thousand miles through Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika and the journey lasted three weeks to a month. Time was not gauged by any previous measurements. Time related only to daylight and the gnawing question: will we get there? Two thousand miles on those roads is equal to ten thousand miles on autobahns, superhighways, the speedy smooth surfaces we are used to. The journey was long, that’s sure. When it was over I felt I was Mr Henry Morton Stanley himself.

I spend and waste time like a millionaire; plenty of capital on deposit, I will never run short. And forget with the same lavishness; no need to save old memory since new memories pile up, an unlimited supply of money in the bank, a bank as big as the world. From the day of my arrival in Nairobi to now—writing in temporary furnished quarters in Ta’Xbiex on the island of Malta—I have spent and wasted and piled up and forgotten fifteen years and three months’ worth of time and memories. There is no way I can lift out and reconstruct the weeks with Joshua in East Africa. I can trace the journey, remember many events and emotions, and allow myself writer’s licence to fill gaps. But I don’t want to begin or end each sentence with “as I remember,” that unwritten qualifying phrase will be everywhere present.

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