p.43
... a quote I once read from the novelist Saul Bellow. I can't remember where I read it, or when - only that I was already at Howard. "Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?" Bellow quipped.
p.56
... I discovered an essay by Ralph Wiley in which he responded to Bellow's quip. "Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus," wrote Wiley.
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And still and all I knew that *we were* something, that we were a tribe - on one hand, invented, and on the other, no less real.