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Travel
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Russo said she recognized the
danger of being a woman traveling
alone, but said she felt safe by using
basic awareness and common sense.
“I tried to keep out of dangerous
situations,” she said, and most of
the time, the other travelers looked
out for each other.
Dangers did manifest themselves
in other ways, she said. Trekking
with gorillas in Uganda sometimes
brought unnerving encounters with
wildlife, she said. The guides, armed
with guns and machetes, led the
tourists to the animals’ nesting spots.
The gorillas are wild animals,
she said, but they were used to hav
ing people come everyday.
She was able to stand within a
few feet of a gorilla, but she was not
allowed to touch it because gorillas
do not have the same immunities to
disease that humans do.
“A cold could wipe out the entire
pack,” she said.
Despite the danger to themselves,
the curious gorillas had been
known to grab tourists and drag
them a few feet, she said, but if the
captive goes limp, the gorilla will
drop him or her, she said.
Travel “can also be about having
experiences that you might not
have planned,” said Anthony St.
Clair, writer, editor and traveler for
www.BootsnAll.com, a Web site
for travelers.
St. Clair, who attended the
previous “Travel Talks” in Feb
ruary, said he enjoyed the infor
mal and informative atmosphere
of the discussion.
“It’s looking at travel in a differ
ent way,” he said. Travelers “can
discover some possibilities they
wouldn’t have imagined.”
Russo said she came back to the
United States with a new kind of
awareness about the people who
inhabit the world.
“We’re really just one body,” she
said. “People think of these coun
tries as these mystic things, but
people are really united.”
She said once people see past
the cultural stereotypes, the locals
were really interested in learning
about her.
“It’s a really small world,”
she said.
E-mail reporter Jen West
at jenwest@dailyemerald.com.
Kesey
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coop or the floor of his legendary
bus, Furthur.
“He didn’t have any interest in
saving them,” Witte said, though he
probably saved the later drafts. He
said Kesey never talked much about
his writing process, so the salvation
of his notes was extremely revealing.
The book “gives the reader a
sense of where these great works
came from,” he said.
University spokesman Ross West
said “KESEY” contains a good mix
of drafts of his works, writing by
critics and historical information.
He said through Kesey’s early sto
ries, the reader can see the evolu
tion in his views of the world.
“There are pages from his note
books that gives insight into the
mind of a great writer — a peek be
hind the curtain,” he said.
Witte said he thought the best
part of “KESEY” was the inclusion
of two chapters from “Seven
Prayers by Grandma Whittier.” He
described Grandma Whittier as
“part crone” and “part hip chick,”
and he said Kesey based the fiction
al character on his grandmother,
who eventually lost her battle with
Alzheimer’s disease.
“His grandmother was his
muse,” Witte said, so when she
died, so did Kesey’s inspiration for
completing the novel.
Seven Prayers “contains his best
writing since ‘Sometimes a Great
Notion,’” he said.
By chance, the reissue of “KE
SEY” happened to coincide with
Kesey’s own death, Eugene’s com
munity reading project “Readin’ in
the Rain” and the revival of the UO
Press, Witte said. These three
events could help with the sale of
the book. “KESEY” is the first of
five Northwest Review books that
will be reissued by the UO Press.
“Most people regard Kesey as a
very significant, major American
writer,” he said, and “probably the
most important writer to come out
of the Northwest.”
E-mail reporter Jen West
at jenwest@dailyemerald.com.
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