My father was kind of a jokester, but he tended to make jokes in funny voices the way, sometimes, people do. English In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. The story is not completely autobiographical, but I did base it on the fact that my father was in a minstrel show. In the 1950s, there were such things as minstrel shows in suburban Boston. Bones," about a father who turns himself into a minstrel act A short story is often the fantasy of a writer, as well as the experience of a writer. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most beautiful - and often life-threatening - landscapes on earth. I think of my writing, generally, as being about the odd man out or the odd woman out, so it's maybe extraordinary people, but maybe also fantasies that I have. In Dark Star Safari, Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. It could be a person thinking that they met "Miss Right" and turning out that they made a horribly wrong decision.
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