Volume 22, Number 14 · September 18, 1975
Taping Friday
By Neal Ascherson
Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales From Out of Africa
collected by Peter Beard
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, unpaginated pp., $19.95
I don't know what Juan Fernandez is like these days. But suppose for a moment that it has become an Island Paradise. Suppose there is a small golf course where Robinson Crusoe once strove to grow crops. And that the beach where his first, useless boat stuck fast has become the terrace of a Holiday Inn or the parking lot of a Rum Boutique. And that the empty strand on which a footprint was laid now bears the impression of a thousand pairs of oiled buttocks. All quite likely, when you think of it. But what if some ancient retired popsicle seller in a nearby shack were discovered to be Man Friday himself, alive and garrulous and ready to fill cassette after cassette with reminiscence of how Mr. Crusoe really carried on?
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