Within this essay, not at first sight written on an overtly political topic, Smuts declared that a true South African literature did not and could not exist until a true South African nation had been born.
It was "love at first sight," he wrote later, and in 1949 he and Phyllis were married.
It was truly love from the first sight," she wrote VICE in an email.
"Beijing was simply love at first sight," he writes.
("I fell in love with her at first sight," he later wrote).
And that's what makes them so brilliant to write about: that you can surprise readers by squeezing every bit of glory from a character that at first sight, everyone would write off.
Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a history teacher; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.99AT FIRST SIGHT, by Nicholas Sparks.
"I fell in love at first sight as she stood there," he writes, "both inside and outside, inhaling contradiction and breathing out ambivalence".
"It was love at first sight — or before it — for me," he writes.
For Australia and its well-canvassed rites of egalitarianism were not, at first sight, a good locale for White to write about.
