The Devil’s Foot: Among Savages

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Devil’s Foot: Among Savages
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: Dr. Leon Sterndale didn’t specify, did he?

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Some Cornishmen doused coastal warning lights to lure ships to ruin, to salvage the wrecks.

I cannot marry my love because of this land’s outdated laws.

A man poisons his siblings – murders my darling – over a little money.

I must return to central Africa, to brave hunters and clever weavers and beautiful children. I have lived too long among savages.

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yeah poor man. Makes you question the definition of civilized.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Once you read up on what was actually going on in places like India and Africa during the Victorian Empire, and you read this stuff written at that time, you shake your head and say "So when brown people fight back against horrific injustice and brutality committed by their white conquerors, THEY'RE the 'savages'?"

Today? Just look at the Facebook racists whining about black folks getting angry just because white cops keep shooting their children.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Which is one reason, despite the allure of facebook, I never joined. One Thanksgiving dinner is enough to sit through, to do so online all year round...well, that's not the fun kind of masochism, is it?

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ugh, tell me about it. I stay away from RacistBook and Twitter for the same reasons. (Fortunately I don't even have to put up with that garbage at Thanksgiving - it's just me, my awesome sister and her son, and a lot of good food.)