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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... dance till it hurts , O ! Just dance until it hurts , O ! Streams of the poor wandered through elegant Petionville , like ants in a fine house . Harborside in Port - au - Prince , in the Martissant district , the rich established little ...
... dance till it hurts , O ! Just dance until it hurts , O ! Streams of the poor wandered through elegant Petionville , like ants in a fine house . Harborside in Port - au - Prince , in the Martissant district , the rich established little ...
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... dancers are taken by the dance . But despite the insistence of the merengue rhythm , everyone knows what is the true justification of carnival : déguisement . A bull rolls on the street , jazzing its legs , its papier - mâché horns ...
... dancers are taken by the dance . But despite the insistence of the merengue rhythm , everyone knows what is the true justification of carnival : déguisement . A bull rolls on the street , jazzing its legs , its papier - mâché horns ...
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... Dance of the Freed Ones , " stylized the meren- gue , the popular dance enjoyed at noisy bamboches , blow - out cele- brations in the city and country , and at Choucoune , the nightclub on the central square in Pétionville where the ...
... Dance of the Freed Ones , " stylized the meren- gue , the popular dance enjoyed at noisy bamboches , blow - out cele- brations in the city and country , and at Choucoune , the nightclub on the central square in Pétionville where the ...
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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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