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Whether it is "Redefining literary techniques and devices", "Justifying Papua New Guinea Literature", or "Translating the Bible into Anuki", these offer valuable reading for the paperless student of literature, and indeed the best sort of literary entertainment you can get out of Papua New Guinea. Check them out either on Soaba's Storyboard or The Anuki Country Press.

Friday 15 January 2016

THE HORRORS OF NEW GUINEA

From the diary of an old villager to town:

I really can't unerstand this...

I mean people from the West and more particularly the Caucasian stock wanting to visit and get the feel of the wildest most primitive and uncivilized places on earth like Papua New Guinea.

What are they really looking for?
                                                                
Somewhere along the line something goes wrong. There are reports of lost souls unable to find their way back to civilization and other much more horrible things that happen to them and which are not worth mentioning here but which do indeed go viral on the internet...

Now according to Dr. Freud, these would be those young people daring to know what really goes on in their bourgeois and upper middle class "selfie" lives...

We'd rather this same miserable and unhappy lot visited Tototo and surrounds... certainly the most fearsome and most unimaginably the worst of dracula kind of places on the planet... Then they would see what "wild and most primitive" means...
                                                           
Averemi, simiri mau... and so sorry for those who stray to the other parts of the country where there is nothing but disappointment for the West over and over...

A country without any sense of government is no country at all. (Who said that? The old villager... but someone else did before that).

Like Thoreau: A government is best which governs not at all.

Which should not serve as an excuse to all the horrible things that happen to tourists visiting our country!



THE MORAL OF THIS POST IS QUITE SIMPLE. RATHER THAN PLAY HERO IN THE WILD JUNGLES OF NEW GUINEA JUST TO GET RAPED MERCILESSLY FOR HOLLYWOOD AND OTHER SENSATIONAL MEDIA RIDICULOUSNESSES PLEASE MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL BY COMING TO OUR MOST PRIMITIVE AND SAVAGE PARTS OF THE COUNTRY TO BUILD NEW CLASSROOMS AND HELP OUR CHILREN GET A BETTER EDUCATION.
                                                                     

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