Mauritian Quotes

Sudanese Minister of Science and Technology, the Mauritian Minister of Communications Technology, the Chadian Minister of

Somewhat as his Neighbors each strenuous Sunday profess belief in the Great Struggle at the End of the World, so does Cornelius, inside his perimeter of Mauritian smoke at the hour when nothing is lawfully a-stir but the Rattle-Watch and the wind, find in his anxious meditations no Release from the coming Armageddon of the races,— this European settlement so precarious, facing an unknown Interior with the sea at their backs, forced, step after step, by the steadfast Gravity of all Africa, down into it at last.... It is another way of living where the Sea is ever higher than one’s Head, and kept out only provisionally.

The song of the dodo, if it had one, is forever unknowable because no human from whom we have testimony ever took the trouble to sit in the Mauritian forest and listen.

Mauritian Giving is when you give something great to someone who doesn't really deserve it. Well, Scottish Giving is when the gift is so much greater than the recipient deserves that it dignifies the receiver.