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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... English than like French , although most of its vocabulary comes from French . High status words and phrases , such as " Dry Cleaning " and " Air Conditioning , " were usually uttered in English rather than in the French equivalents ...
... English than like French , although most of its vocabulary comes from French . High status words and phrases , such as " Dry Cleaning " and " Air Conditioning , " were usually uttered in English rather than in the French equivalents ...
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... English , " I have become deeply inter- ested in the questions of Loyalty , Survival , and Corpulence - the big problem for a true idealist . " " Do you mean Corruption ? " " Precisely ! You attack my thought ! Fat with greed ! " he ...
... English , " I have become deeply inter- ested in the questions of Loyalty , Survival , and Corpulence - the big problem for a true idealist . " " Do you mean Corruption ? " " Precisely ! You attack my thought ! Fat with greed ! " he ...
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... English word for a name : " Runner . " Another son was named for an English expression he frequently heard while running in Canada : " Wat Zat . " I asked how it felt to be abroad for the first time , among people who don't speak Creole ...
... English word for a name : " Runner . " Another son was named for an English expression he frequently heard while running in Canada : " Wat Zat . " I asked how it felt to be abroad for the first time , among people who don't speak Creole ...
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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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