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Word: safroni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1921-1921
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...ever vile. Melville, perhaps, discovered to literature a whole new demesne for the imagination to conjure with. Charles. Warren Stoddard bore his testimony to the passing of a Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from constant paint in drugs, limned the pagan folk of "Bloody Hiva-oa" for all the world, and lies now in an unknown grave overlooking the Bay of Atuona...

Author: By D. W. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF - REVIEWS - JOTS AND TITLES | 1/21/1921 | See Source »

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