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Maybe it was Hemingway, or maybe it was Conrad, but the vision conjured up in my mind by the phrase "African Safari" has a lot to do with blood and thunder and hyenas. That and impenetrable forests and magic...
...Boston Review and before Esquire, sits the "Fashion for Men," magazine thick and glossy and magnificently overproduced. On the cover is a wind-blown, rough-and-ready type nuzzling what appears to be an independently wealthy woman, Beneath the logo is the word "Adventure!"; further down, "Summer Stvies on Safari...
...Next to Hemingway and Conrad, he was nothing. The closest the poor guy would ever come to Hemingway was his first name. The animals, I had been convinced from the age of nine, were probably fake anyway. Still, I always wanted to go on safari even if it was only a defensive maneuver. I figured if things got worse than they had ever been, I would grab a steamer to Kenya and go out fighting. I would either emerge from the interior grizzled and cured, or I just wouldn't come out at all. Others I knew would...
...lure of "hatari"--danger. A haven for two million animals. The thunder of a thousand thirsty antelope scurrying across plains as wide as oceans... Teddy Roosevelt was one of the first Americans to journey into this wilderness wonder," it continues. He arrived "with his 'big stick', dashing, serviceable safari wear and a hundred bearers in tow, all dressed in Alice-blue sweaters...
Which is true enough, one has to admit--a young urban male is pretty hard-up for revolution these days. Carlsen then goes on to talk about the new Western fashion sensibility, a new "heroic" look that the fashion safari epitomizes, "It is," he says, "a massive return to romantic values." He's probably right. You have to find romance somewhere. The alternative is simply to dreadful...