Evelyn Waugh Quotes
His Constant, Despairing Prayer Was To Be Let Alone. By The Blue Waters And Rustling Palms Of His Own Mind He Was Happy And Harmless As A Polynesian; Only When The Big Ship Dropped Anchor Beyond The Coral Reef, And The Cutter Beached In The Lagoon, And, Up The Slope That Had Never Known The Print Of A Boot, There Trod The Grim Invasion Of Trader, Administrator, Missionary, And Tourist - Only Then Was It Time To Disinter The Archaic Weapons Of The Tribe And Sound The Drums In The Hills; Or, More Easily, To Turn From The Sunlit Door And Lie Alone In The Darkness, Where The Impotent, Painted Deities Paraded The Walls In Vain, And Cough His Heart Out Among The Rum Bottles. And
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