come on baby, can you bleed like me?

[dragonladyflame]

Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen) is a figure I never knew much about until my Internet crush cooper_korman quoted heavily from her 1934 book, Seven Gothic Tales. As it happens, she was born into a Unitarian family in late 1800s Denmark; she lived her life to quite a romantic extent -- running about Africa, publishing fiction and engaging in remarkable

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[jonathankorman]

Sweet of you to quote my favourite bit of all.

I'm surprised that you didn't pick up this one, though, which is widely quoted:The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

[dragonladyflame]

Things that are widely quoted are so unoriginal. And is that one from Seven Gothic Tales or Out of Africa?

Should I ask which is your favourite? Or am I revealing too much when I say I don't know?

[jonathankorman]

I had imagined that it would be obvious, but on reflection of course it isn't. "We drink at that age from thirst ..."

[dragonladyflame]

I really loved "The Old Chevalier". I connected mostly with two stories in that volume, and "The Dreamers" only partly got me, but "The Old Chevalier" really got me. Frustrated love and prostitution, yum.

[kespernorth]

My mother is a total raving Karen Blixen fangirl. I've been to her estate in Denmark at least once; my mother has gone many times, as well as interviewed her housekeeper and other persons who knew Blixen well.

[dragonladyflame]

Any fun facts to share?