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Heat, dust, fever, mosquitoes, mud towns, mangy camels, the hot ever-blowing harmattan, absinthe, loneliness, monotony, forced marches through the desert sand, Africa, loneliness, loneliness, is the dirge of the legionnaire. "J'ai le cafard," announces the soldat and he is amok with a little beetle running round and round in his brains. Sometimes he slices off his sergeant's head, sometimes he wets his jowls with his own red blood, oftener he deserts...
Imperial Welcome. At Peking numerous imposing floral arches were hastily erected. Scampering coolies strewed the way toward these arches and the squares at which they stood with symbolically dyed golden sand. Proudly riding to meet one another at the focus of this gold-strewn floral mise en scène came the great Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang...
...joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain, off to the shore to split waves with his strong body and loaf on the warm sand...
...great trouble," he says simply, "in leaving out the stock poetical touches, but succeeded at last." Five versions of Leaves of Grass have been cast to wind, water and fire, after bitter hours of solitude in the lee of basaltic boulders on a sand-strewn promontory. The sixth version is stark flesh and marrow with life's tide flooding, pounding through...
...school magazine. These, turned off at the rate of seven a day, permitted him to live in New Orleans, Cuba, Europe, Philadelphia. About 1918 he sold a story to Adventure and at once went home to become a novelist, which he speedily and notably did with Birthright, Fombombo, Red Sand. He is a sociologist only by indirection, an artist by accident. He is humorous. He dislikes work. Sound physically, he writes in an invalid's chair, between frequent naps...