Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... smiling , and waved me through with a welcoming largeness . He was , he declared , an immense and devoted Haitian amateur of my distin- guished cousin's music . " Who ? " Victor Herbert ... evidently a cousin of Gold Herbert . " Mes - z ...
... smiling , and waved me through with a welcoming largeness . He was , he declared , an immense and devoted Haitian amateur of my distin- guished cousin's music . " Who ? " Victor Herbert ... evidently a cousin of Gold Herbert . " Mes - z ...
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... smiling young man was tossing - no , was being tossed - and from his mouth was pouring a stream of violent abuse of Alaice Fils - Aimé - de - Dieu , the lowest of the low , cursed on earth and in heaven . It was the hoarse and cruel ...
... smiling young man was tossing - no , was being tossed - and from his mouth was pouring a stream of violent abuse of Alaice Fils - Aimé - de - Dieu , the lowest of the low , cursed on earth and in heaven . It was the hoarse and cruel ...
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... Smiling Paul Magloire was also called Papa . Prudent Haitians got along as best they could , but the lively merengue that became the theme of Carnival in 1954 proclaimed : " Tous les jou ' m'sou❞— Every day I'm drunk , without naming ...
... Smiling Paul Magloire was also called Papa . Prudent Haitians got along as best they could , but the lively merengue that became the theme of Carnival in 1954 proclaimed : " Tous les jou ' m'sou❞— Every day I'm drunk , without naming ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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