Passage'Passage' is the life story of a 500-year-old man and at the same time a history of the New World. The story is told by a hero in the first person during the course of five nights. His narrative takes the form of a confession to a Franciscan friar, who finds a box with the mummified old man deposited on his doorstep in New York. |
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... Indians . They lived deep within a forest so dense and entangled that not even other Indian tribes who inhabited the ... Mud Indians ; a point of view he represented with energy when he returned to the village with my unconscious body ...
... Indians . They lived deep within a forest so dense and entangled that not even other Indian tribes who inhabited the ... Mud Indians ; a point of view he represented with energy when he returned to the village with my unconscious body ...
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... Mud Indians were known as a sluggish , gullible tribe , whose men preferred pottery to hunting . They had none of that nimble , bristling quality characteristic of a Pig Indian warrior . Their element was clay , which they were rumoured ...
... Mud Indians were known as a sluggish , gullible tribe , whose men preferred pottery to hunting . They had none of that nimble , bristling quality characteristic of a Pig Indian warrior . Their element was clay , which they were rumoured ...
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... Mud Indians ancestors on her maternal side . Having flattened its nose with the palm of her hand , she passed the child to her mother and went out to work in the manioc field . My son was brought to me in my hammock where I had already ...
... Mud Indians ancestors on her maternal side . Having flattened its nose with the palm of her hand , she passed the child to her mother and went out to work in the manioc field . My son was brought to me in my hammock where I had already ...
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