Word: theroux
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...college radicals"; others see an allegory of limited resources (as human bodies multiplied on the island, and resources did not, people were reduced to eating one another, and after infections and slavery raids further reduced numbers, the population, in the late 19th century, sank to 110). In Paul Theroux's formulation, "Easter Island is smaller than Martha's Vineyard, and probably has fewer stony faces...