The south has got you.”Īre you searching for the NEXT best book?Īre you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi Are you searching for the NEXT best book?Īre you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, big name book stores, and library or used book sales? Are your bookshelves currently a little tight of space? For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it - then you know. jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). They caution themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the.

We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. “Every culture has its southerners - people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners) who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives - envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners.

A Vision of Murder by Price McNaughton