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nces. It's very hard to get anything true on anything you haven't seen yourself because the ones that fail have such a bad press and the winners always lie so. Then you can only really follow anything in places where you speak the language. That limits you of course. That's why I would never go to Russia. When you can't overhear it's no good. All you get are handouts and sight-seeing. Any one who knows a foreign language in any country is damned liable to lie to you. You get your good dope always from the people and when you can't talk with people and can't overhear you don't get anything that's of anything but journalistic value.'
'You want to knuckle down on your Swahili then.'
'I'm trying to.'
'Even then you can't overhear because they're always talking their own language.'
'But if I ever write anything about this it will just be landscape painting until I know something about it. Your first seeing of a country is a very valuable one. Probably more valuable to yourself than to anyone else [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is the hell of it. But you ought to always write it to try to get it stated. No matter what you do with it.'
'Most of the damned Safari books are most awful bloody bores.'
'They're terrible.'
'The only one I ever liked was Streeter's. What did