The Story of an African Farm (1883)
From Commonplace Book
- 36-8: The overseer's silver hunting watch, the way it invokes religion fate and history for the boy. Time and apocalypse
* Time reinvoked on 137 at start of part 2
- Kaffir: black South Africans (derogatory now)
- Kraal: enclosure outbuilding for livestock
- Kopje: small hill
- 40 Waldo's sacrifice
- 45-6 as in Mill the opposition between education and agrarian work even in childrens' understanding
- 66 Waldo reading bible
- Ch 5 strange/interesting structure
- 76 lyndall's books/bonaparte's phony teaching
- 93 Em swearing she will help the weak against the strong
- 102 Waldo's rejection of god and the mutual incomphrehensibility of experience/ feeling
- 103 Ghosts and guilt like hamlet or lady m then Macb at chapter end
- 109 Waldo reading abt property rights
- 114 Tant throws book at Waldo like John reed in jane eyre
- 119-20 deep time
- 130 a more visceral meditation on the wounds of childhood but reminiscent of Mill on the Floss
- 137 time and internal seasons
* Also a metafictive moment indicating how the narrative is structured like in ch 5
