ENGB31 Lecture Notes - Tyrant, Quixotism, Assegai
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Essay due april 1 6 pages minimum. Should talk about how the text works as a text. A person who seeks adventures; esp. a mercenary soldier. A person who undertakes or shares in commercial adventure; a speculator. A person who live by his or her wits. (oed) A pecuniary risk, a venture, a speculation, a commercial enterprise (oed) Quatermain does it for the money but mainly for his son. Map & land: racial symbols of the land. Sir henry told me to ask him to stand up. Umbopa did so, at the same time slipping off the long military great coat which he wore, and revealinghimself naked exept for the moocha round his centre and a necklack of lions" claws. Certainly he was a magnificent-looking man; i never saw a finer native. Standing about six foot three high he was broad in proportion, and very shapely.
