I Die, But The Memory Lives On

108 Pages·2016·0.57 MB·English

by  Mankell Henning

Table of Contents
Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
The Mango Plant
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Afterword
Twenty Years of Denial
Life in the Time of HIV
Worldwide Organisations Working to Fight HIV/Aids
Appendix This Memory Book
I Die, but the
Memory Lives on
Henning Mankell
I DIE, BUT
THE MEMORY
LIVES ON
A Personal Reflection on Aids
Translated from the Swedish by
Laurie Thompson
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Twenty Years of Denial © Anders Wijkman, 2003, 2004
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Life in the Time of HIV © Rachel Baggaley, 2004
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The Mango Plant
1
One night in June in 2003 I dreamed about dead people in a coniferous forest.
Everything in the dream is very clear. The smell of moss, steam rising after rain.
But it isn't summer. Fungi are growing around the roots of the trees. The dream
landscape is autumnal. September, possibly October.
Unseen birds take off from damp branches.
My dream is about dead people in a coniferous forest. The faces of the dead
people are let into the tree trunks. It is as if I were walking through a gallery of
unfinished wood sculptures. Or I am in a studio hastily abandoned by the artist.
The faces are contorted, but no screams come from their half-open mouths,
only silence.
They are black faces, African faces, yet the forest is in Sweden.
The dream is unexpected. There again, are not all dreams unexpected? No
dreams can be planned nor do they turn up to order. The messages of the night
can never be prepared for, nor can they be averted when they do come. These
messages often disappear without trace, without their meaning being interpreted.
Dreams are like skilful jesters: whimsical, surprising, never quite possible to
keep tabs on.
The dream fills me with uncertainty. But one thing is unambiguous, on one
point there is no uncertainty.
The black people whose faces can be made out among the tree trunks have
died of Aids. The skin is tightly stretched over the bones of their faces. The dead
people are thin, fading away, in great pain. Nowhere is there a trace of calm or
resignation.
Their screams are silent.