She is also noted, particularly in Denmark, for her Seven Gothic Tales. But he will devote himself, in endless speculations, to the method by which crime or disaster shall be weighed up in sheep and goats - time does not count to him he leads you solemnly into a sacred maze of sophistry. Karen Blixen Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures.
The Native will not give time or thought to the weighing of guilt or desert either he fears that this may lead him too far, or he reasons that such things are no concerns of his. A loss has been brought upon the community and must be made up for, somewhere, by somebody. Whether you lie in wait for your enemy and cut his throat in the dark or you fell a tree, and a thoughtless stranger passes by and is killed so far as punishment goes, to the Native mind, it is the same thing. To the African there is but one way of counter-balancing the catastrophes of existence, it shall be done by replacement he does not look for the motive of an action.
“The ideas of justice of Europe and Africa are not the same and those of the one world are unbearable to the other.
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