Diary 
Andrew O’Hagan
Among people who care to be remembered, there can’t be many who would settle for being remembered for what was said to them as opposed to what they said themselves. David Livingstone went through hell before arriving at Lake Tanganyika in October 1871, but his stories about that journey would never enter the language the way Stanley’s would, when he caught up with him at Ujiji.
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Andrew O’Hagan is the author of three novels and, most recently, The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays. He is a contributing editor at the LRB.
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