The Cape of Good Hope

I found those interesting pictures - of tourists posing at the Cape of Good Now - on the internet. Giving a title to a landscape has been always a fascinating absurdity to me but when it comes to this imposing and historically charged point it becomes a perversity (a kind of hypertextual deviation). The Gape of Good Hope is speculated to be the southern tip of Africa. From the Old to the New World it changed names to be finally called Cape of Good Hope by John II of Portugal, “because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of the sea route to India and East”. It is also the legendary home of the Flying Dutchman. The imposing inscription is a dominant mark and at the same time a dominating perversion. (More…)