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Both sway. Are fragrant...
...good Colette biography has still to be written. Until one comes along, her letters will do very nicely. Every day she sent out half a dozen or so. Spontaneous, intensely conversational, they resemble nothing so much, as Translator Robert Phelps observes, "as an armful of field flowers, fresh, fragrant, still sparkling with dew, which Ceres, let's say, brought in from her morning walk...
This play is a rite of passage, a picaresque odyssey of a man who moves from his bucolic farm in Cross Roads, N.C., to jail and to a big Northern city where the demonic "subway rolls, the sub way rolls," and after 13 years comes back home to the fragrant land of his first sweet memories and desires...
Upon entering, an odor rose up around you and surrounds you still. It is the most delicious and fragrant and sweet-smelling of odors and one which you cannot buy, for it is nothing less than a confused compound, a farrago of a thousand smells. Even could you afford to buy the thousand bottles of perfume and eau de cologne, the bath powders, and the multiple packages of amber soap that lie in tissue-papered state, you still would not have smell, unless you could also the time, the long, bored months during which the smells gathered and deepened...
Maui, a tiny Rorschach splotch in the North Pacific, is pounded by breakers, caressed by potpourri-fragrant trade winds, usually blessed in some parts by 350 days a year of that still obedient sun. Maui is a microcosm of the world's landscapes and climates. Temperatures range from subarctic to subtropic; rainfall from 3 in. to 400 in. (but this whiter the whole island was drenched with a near record rainfall); the terrain from soaring peaks, impenetrable jungles and black lava promontories to viridian uplands, gossamer falls and beaches of bleached sand...