About Blady: A Pattern Out Of Time
by Laurens van der Post
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Author: Laurens van der PostEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-04-12
ISBN: 0156026058
Number of pages: 276
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: Van der Post giving us a good part of himself
Summary: 5 Stars
ABOUT BLADY is a touching book about life and death. It inspired this poem which I hope will suffice as a reveiw.HE DIED OF CANCER HE WAS 68 HE DIED OF CANCER HE WAS 36 HE DIED OF CANCER HE WAS 24
LATTER RAINS come sparking on a comet's tail out of control
strike a silent blow to grow in him out of sight coming in visionary midnight dreams
frightening misunderstood meaning clear in afterthought
after ravaged body nears end of capability felt end of being
Pain no pills can erase subdued by chords of Beethoven passages of Mozart
Sunshine overshadowed by death clouds a peaceful finale echoes through stainglass windows to silence
Summary of About Blady: A Pattern Out Of Time
Sir Laurens, whose life has encompassed African expeditions and years as a Japanese POW, recalls events-some joyful, some tragic-and in so doing provides the framework for an exploration into the human spirit.
In 1991, five years before he died, South Africa-born writer and amateur ethnographer Sir Laurens van der Post took a long look at his life and the small details that resonated over time. Among the things he recalls in this luminous book of autobiography are a majestic French horse, the Blady of his title; the sound of the ocean as it breaks on the capes of Africa and South America; and a wondrous encounter with a meteor in the Kalahari Desert. This book, weaving natural and personal history, is full of animals, dreams, myths, the African desert, and Mediterranean sunlight. Every page brings a new pleasure.
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