EPISODE 34: P.A. Daum, "Ups and Downs of Life in the Indies" (1890), Part Two
Description
Chapters 7-12: 0:00 —The beginning of a desire. 7:30 —An escape route. 8:13 —P.A. Daum. 11:22 —Coffee with Aunt Clara. 14:13 —Very unpleasant. 16:16 —Interlude.
Chapters 13-21: 17:30 —Her soiled roots. 20:31 —Precocious degradation. 23:52 —Disinformation & denial. 27:00 —Hereditary or existential despair. 31:49 —Depression. 32:56 —Sick Europeans. 34:42 —Four or five good years. 38:29 —Climate change. 43:12 —The dreary normal. 45:57 —His spirit is sick. 46:46 —In a Chinese shop. 48:18 —Suicide prevention. 50:15 —The phantasmagoria. 52:05 —Colonial life goes on. 54:08 —Abrupt ending. 55:47 —A more satisfying closing.
Text: P.A. Daum, Ups and Downs of Life in the Indies. Translated by Elsje Quinn Sturtevant and Donald W. Sturtevant. Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
Interludes: Erik Satie, Gnossienne No. 4 (1891), performed by Takuma Sugawara, 2024.
Illustration: Huygens Instituut.
Contact: jimjneilson@gmail.com
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