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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Impressions Of Africa - Opening

At about four o'clock on that 25th June, everything appeared to be ready for the coronation of Talu VII, Emperor of Ponukele and King of Drelshkaf.
Although the sun was low in the sky, the heat was still over-powering in that part of Africa, near the equator, and the thundery atmosphere, untempered by the slightest breeze, weighed oppressively on every one of us.

IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA
a novel
By RAYMOND ROUSSEL

Translated by
Lindy Foord and Rayner Heppenstall

University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

Originally publisehd as Impressions d`Afrique by
Alphonse Lemerie, Paris 1910 (4th impression
1932) Re-issued by Jean Jacques Pauvert, 1963;
Jean-Jacques Pauvert
This translation, Rayner Heppenstall, 1966

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 67-13139


Printed in Great Britain

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