Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiSimon & Schuster, 1992 - 303 pages A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author conducts with this beleaguered island is rich with surprising revelations and startling juxtapositions. "The best all-encompassing explanation of this . . . tragic island country that I have read".--Digby Diehl, Playboy. |
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... Carnival that is a shrewd , guileful , and dead - earnest African joke , sets forth Haitian need in all its pain . During this traditional Christian occasion of comedy , masquerade , permitted excess , the Haitian smuggles himself back ...
... Carnival that is a shrewd , guileful , and dead - earnest African joke , sets forth Haitian need in all its pain . During this traditional Christian occasion of comedy , masquerade , permitted excess , the Haitian smuggles himself back ...
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... Carnival is also the chance to take revenge , against hunger . The distinguishing ritual is " déguisement ” —that masking which is an unmasking . The man who fears starvation wears a bow tie made of a herring . The drinkers wrap ...
... Carnival is also the chance to take revenge , against hunger . The distinguishing ritual is " déguisement ” —that masking which is an unmasking . The man who fears starvation wears a bow tie made of a herring . The drinkers wrap ...
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... carnival anthem one year . Despite fear , it is carnival time , and everyone drinks . No one is drunk . All is permitted if sufficiently disguised . Do what you like— and anyway , what is life ? The cocks crow all day . The dogs bark ...
... carnival anthem one year . Despite fear , it is carnival time , and everyone drinks . No one is drunk . All is permitted if sufficiently disguised . Do what you like— and anyway , what is life ? The cocks crow all day . The dogs bark ...
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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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