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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399000" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a Close-up of Louis Esterhuizen, on His Verse Novel “die onderwaterweg, ” (The Underwater Way)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So tell me Louis, you start your verse novel<br>of which the story line is very thin, <br>with a white man lying drunk and silent in hospital</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after trying to commit suicide, <br>with memories taking him back<br>to events in his marriage with his white wife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who had been a left wing political activist, <br>where politics makes the marriage crumble, <br>rather than interpersonal relationships, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">were marriages usually crumble<br>from a lack of communication<br>and respect for each other? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where at times he is impotent, <br>where at times he gets it right, <br>where he looses her in consequence of a rebellious march</div><div style="margin:10px 0">are cut from her leftwing circle of friends, <br>where she head over heels in the middle of the road<br>lift her dress; let her panties hang around her knees</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where she has sex with a black freedom fighter<br>(how realistic this may be) <br>is pregnant with a child for Azania</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while children in rags string along after her, <br>where they again sleep together<br>and he does not catch AIDS, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">she is slaughtered in a pincher operation<br>or maybe by canister-shot<br>(again utterly unrealistic) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">after which he buries her<br>along with her black friends.<br>On visits by a certain Jabula, fall in love with her, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he changes from white to black, <br>so much so that he takes a taxi to a hut somewhere, <br>where she is a labourer on a sugar plantation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where she makes love to him, they give life to a child<br>and I wonder if you want to draw this story<br>through to every white Afrikaner? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Especially where the main character in a prayer <br>to the almighty God wants to know<br>if the AK-47 and famine<br>is God’s own way of controlling vermin? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A person can easily come to the conclusion<br>along with the thirst for heroes for the black struggle<br>and where you write “morning walk”<br>set against Ingrid Jonker’s poem of the child, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that you view every Afrikaner, <br>every white farmer killed on a farm, <br>as plague or vermin, <br>that God kills through black people, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">if white people do not mix with blacks, <br>as the main character in your story does? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[After Anthony Delius/References: Louis Esterhuizen, “Die onderwaterweg, ‘n versroman, Human & Rousseau, (1996) Kaapstad. “On a Close-up of Dirk Opperman, on the Jacket of his Komas” by Anthony Delius.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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