More AA Gill for you, this time from an article on his recent trip to the Kalahari Desert. He's one of my favourite writers - often contentious and always interesting. Some people don't like his prose, but for me it's a benchmark of good writing. I've ordered his new book, which I should be receiving any day now.

"The desert is amoral. It doesn't care: you're as useful dead as you are alive. Your position at the top of the evolutionary tree, your money, your cultured good taste, your hopes and expectations mean nothing here; you're just another roll of the dice, a stumble and a sting away from being a mass of skull minerals."

Posted by Hg on Tuesday 30 April 2002 at 17:42.
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