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Following are our favorite questions about Karen Blixen - Isak Dinesen. Many thanks to those who sent them! We welcome your comments and additions to the answers. Send your comments and questions to GraceJames [all one word] at karenblixen.com.

QUESTIONS 2009

  1. What is a "brass serpent"?
  2. How to find a movie?
  3. Why not post a link?

QUESTIONS 2008

        1. Glenway Wescott on Isak Dinesen?
        2. Why is Karen Blixen sometimes called "Tania"?
        3. Source of: Isak Dinesen on hunting as a love affair?
        4. Source of: ". . . never again be birds in cages"?
        5. Source of: "safari life . . . as if you had drunk champagne"?
        6. Information about Berkeley Cole?

QUESTIONS 2007

  1. "Strongly urge you cancel Daniel's visit"?
  2. Why did Karen Blixen lose the farm?
  3. Source of: "Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul."
  4. Source of:  "two locked caskets"?
  5. Denys Finch Hatton's will and testament?
  6. Denys Finch Hatton's room and board?
  7. Denys Finch Hatton and fatherhood?
  8. The scene at Karen Blixen's final departure from Nairobi?
  9. Did Karen Blixen marry for the title Baroness?
  10. Photo of Berkeley Cole?
  11. Isak Dinesen on Marilyn Monroe?

QUESTIONS 2006

  1. Burial in Africa or Denmark?
  2. Ærlig-ærlig?
  3. Stork as a symbol of life?
  4. Why Africa?
  5. James Merrill's The Book of Ephraim?
  6. Source of poem about "grey geese" in Out of Africa?
  7. Translation of "durior ferro purior auro"?
  8. How to pronounce "Isak Dinesen"?
  9. Karen Blixen's sister Ellen Dinesen Dahl?
  10. Denys Finch Hatton and Rose Cartwright?

QUESTIONS 2005

  1. Karen Blixen's signature?
  2. Meaning of Ah Rupia, kama na Majasee?
  3. "Our master of blessed memory"?
  4. Did Karen Blixen ever live in Paris?
  5. Bror Blixen and Francis Macomber?
  6. Isak Dinesen and Ernest Hemingway?
  7. Karen Blixen and Pacquin?
  8. Was Karen Blixen happy?
  9. 'The Angelic Avengers' and Thomas Mann?
  10. Music on Out of Africa movie soundtrack?
  11. Source of Samuel Barber's Vanessa?
  12. Karen Blixen and Erik von Otter?
  13. Photos of Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen?
  14. Finch Hatton's Takaunga property?
QUESTIONS 2004
        1. Where was Babette's Feast filmed?
        2. Source of "Tourner un philtre noir"?
        3. Significance of "Where'er you walk"?
        4. Meaning of "Msabu"?
        5. Isak Dinesen's style and form?
        6. Did Karen Blixen ever go to Norway?
        7. Meaning of "song of Africa"?
        8. Plot of "Ehrengard"?
        9. Where can I find "The Blue Eyes"?
        10. Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere divos?
        11. Karen Blixen's effect on the world?

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    QUESTIONS 2001
     
        1. What is the meaning of "Equitare, arcum tendere, veritatem dicere?"
        2. Pact with the Devil?
        3. Destiny vs identity?
        4. "The Blue Jar?"
        5. Source of information about "The Pearls?"
        6. Information about the "mill-stone table?"
        7. Where did Karen Blixen get syphilis?
        8. What kind of dogs did Karen Blixen own?
        9. Photos of Karen Blixen with Carson McCullers?
        10. Beryl Markham's signature?
        11. Truman Capote's comments on Isak Dinesen?
        12. Goethe and Isak Dinesen's use of color?
        13. Isak Dinesen?: "All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story or tell a story about them."
        14. Source of ?: "Cure for everything: salt water"
        15. Source of ?: "Straight is the line of duty...."
        16. Source of ?: "I try to make it worse...."
        17. Source of ?: "The Wine of the Tetrarch"
        18. Date of Karen Blixen's syphilis?
        19. "Gray moth of dusk" in "Babette's Feast"
        20. "Je responderay"?
        1. The Meaning of the term "Gothic" in literature?
        2. Concerning Karen Blixen's friend Beryl Markham, whatever happened to her only child, Gervase?
        3. Where is Karen Blixen buried?
        4. Karen Blixen and Kamante?
        5. Denys's movie gifts to Karen Blixen?
        6. Floor plan of Karen Blixen's house in Africa?
        7. Karen Blixen and Limoges?
        8. Karen Blixen's relationship with her mother's family
        9. Uraka and Laskaro in Out of Africa?
        10. "Matunality" in Sorrow-Acre?
        11. Did Karen Blixen ever fight a lion?
        12. Where can I find "The Revenge of Truth"?
        13. As Baroness, was Karen Blixen part of high society?
        14. Where can I find "The Hermits"?
        15. Baroness Blixen and the Hindenburg?
        1. Ideas for a School Presentation?
        2. Information about the indigenous population?
        3. Meanings and morals in Out of Africa?
        4. Reference to the German poet Goethe in "The Poet"?
        5. More information about Karen Blixen's life in Africa?
        6. Bible verses in "The Young Man with the Carnation?"
        7. Commentaries on "The Blank Page?"
        8. What if Karen Blixen had been born in Africa?
        9. Syphilis, malaria and Bror Blixen?
        10. Did Isak Dinesen write a tale about "a girl named Shirley who spoke perfect Chinese...?"
        11. Information about the house used in the film Out of Africa?
        12. What about Karen Blixen's names "Tanne," "Tania," "Osceola," and "Isak Dinesen?"
        13. Information about Karen Blixen's flower arrangements?
        14. Karen Blixen's views on religious matters?

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