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Dark star safari6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() It was by choice that Theroux didn't walk into an Internet cafe in a cell-sized wooden shack in almost any African shantytown and get his wife in Hawaii to fax him the New York Times crossword puzzle. Africans, already on the margins of the world's attention, don't want to disappear any further. ![]() Theroux could have cut himself off just as well in Switzerland. "I was in such regular touch," he writes, "it was like having a job, a mode of life I hate." This, writes Paul Theroux, in the opening to Dark Star Safari, his latest travel book, is exactly why he came to Africa: to escape a life infested with e-mail and cell phones - all the pinging, buzzing ways one can be easily located. "Safari," in Swahili, has little to do with goggling at big animals it simply means "journey," a word used to say someone is far away. ![]()
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