Indian Ocean Islands

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    “The Indian resists curiosity by a stony silence. The Negro offers a featherbed resistance. That is, we let the probe enter, but it never comes out. It gets smothered under a lot of laughter and pleasantries.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,
    As I wended the shores I know,
    As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “What are the islands to me
    if you are lost
    what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
    and Delos, the clasp
    of the white necklace?”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)