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</html><thumbnail_url>https://i0.wp.com/www.ulitarnica.ro/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/6102516315_400e78834b_b.jpg?fit=1024%2C709&amp;ssl=1</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>1024</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>709</thumbnail_height><description>Chiar dac&#x103; nu e scris&#x103; de un lankez, cartea aceasta m-a ajutat mult ca s&#x103; &#xEE;n&#x21B;eleg cum st&#x103; treaba cu aceast&#x103; &#x21B;&#x103;ri&#x219;oar&#x103; de la margine de lume Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka de John Gimlette A primit&#xA0;&#x2B50;&#x2B50;&#x2B50;&#x2B50;&#x2605; Cartea asta mi-a pl&#x103;cut foarte mult. A pierdut o stelu&#x21B;&#x103; doar pentru c&#x103; a insistat at&#xE2;t de mult asupra r&#x103;zboiului civil. Autorul c&#x103;r&#x21B;ii a m&#x103;rturisit &#xEE;ns&#x103; de la bun &#xEE;nceput care &#xEE;i era inten&#x21B;ia: s&#x103; &#xEE;ncerce s&#x103; &#xEE;n&#x21B;eleag&#x103; ce-a putut declan&#x219;a un conflict at&#xE2;t de lung &#x219;i at&#xE2;t de crud ce-a l&#x103;sat &#xEE;n urm&#x103; zeci de mii de mor&#x21B;i. S&#x103; priceap&#x103; cum de e posibil ca la un moment dat s&#x103;-i cuprind&#x103; strechea pe vecinii ce tr&#x103;iau &#xEE;n pace &#xEE;mpreun&#x103; &#x219;i s&#x103;-i determine s&#x103; se omoare &#xEE;ntre ei f&#x103;r&#x103; nici un discern&#x103;m&#xE2;nt. Pentru a deslu&#x219;i misterul, a petrecut c&#xE2;teva luni bune &#xEE;n Sri Lanka &#x219;i a scotocit prin toate ungherele interesante. Cartea a fost pentru mine o surs&#x103; bogat&#x103; de informa&#x21B;ii despre &#x21B;&#x103;ri&#x219;oara pe care urma s-o vizitez nu peste mult&#x103; vreme &#x219;i mi-a influen&#x21B;at deciziile legate de locurile spre care m-am &#xEE;ndreptat. Am aflat din ea multe informa&#x21B;ii legate de istorie veche &#x219;i nou&#x103; a Sri Lank&#x103;i &#x219;i ce complicate au fost lucrurile dup&#x103; ce englezii &#x219;i-au f&#x103;cut bagajele &#x219;i s-au retras. Mi-a pl&#x103;cut mult c&#x103; autorul citeaz&#x103; mereu din scrierile altor c&#x103;l&#x103;tori englezi ce-au avut norocul sau ghinionul s&#x103; nimereasc&#x103; aici &#xEE;n timpuri demult apuse. M-a f&#x103;cut curioas&#x103; s&#x103; descop&#x103;r dac&#x103; nu exist&#x103; cumva &#x219;i un corespondent rom&#xE2;n care s&#x103; fi f&#x103;cut la fel. P&#xE2;n&#x103; acum n-am descoperit &#xEE;ns&#x103; nici unul. Perhaps the wild elephants say more about the complexity of this island than anything else. It&#x2019;s said they follow the same paths all their lives, and from generation to generation. These paths are everywhere, and are often unknown to human beings. This means that Sri Lanka is densely criss-crossed with invisible corridors that have remained unchanged for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Sometimes an alimankada, or elephant path, won&#x2019;t be used for a while, and people will forget that it&#x2019;s there. But once the elephants are back on their path, there&#x2019;s little that will divert them. They&#x2019;ll break through fences and pickets, and have been known to sweep aside huts and little houses. Zoologists are uncertain whether to describe this as obstinate or determined, and perhaps it doesn&#x2019;t matter. All that&#x2019;s clear is that, in the collective elephantine mind, there is a great plan of this island. Maybe the human mind works in the same way. Looking through Ceylonese or Sri Lankan history, it never feels quite circular. Rather, there are a recurring series of points of arrival and departure, with everything between lying disrupted and broken. Civilisations appear and flourish, and there&#x2019;s a great surge of progess before&#xA0;it all suddenly vanishes. No one is quite back where they started, and yet the same story will begin again, perhaps somewhere else. It&#x2019;s as if the island&#x2019;s history is a dense mesh of lines and pathways which&#x2014;like the alimankadas&#x2014;simply have to be followed. The issues and the protagonists have barely changed in thousands of years, and always there&#x2019;s that same sense of obstinacy and destination driving them along. Perhaps these pathways exist in some great and mysterious map, or perhaps it&#x2019;s just a state of mind, an elephant complex. Gimlette, John. Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 00</description></oembed>
