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Isak Dinesen describes the exhilaration she felt when recalling her time in the mountains of Kenya:

In the middle of the day the air was alive over the land, like a flame burning; it scintillated, waved and shone like running water, mirrored and doubled all objects, and created great Fata Morgana [mirages]. Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. (2: 163)

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Works cited entry

Dinesen, Isak. “Out of Africa.” Written by Herself, edited by Jill Ker Conway, 2 vols., Vintage, 1996.

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