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Moitessier, Bernard - Tamata and the Alliance - Of gods and dragons
Identifier
003236
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Bernard Moitessier – Tamata and the Alliance
Behind the huts, I can see again the tombs of those who had left us, honoured by the scent of the slim joss sticks, at the edge of the creepers and the green. That was where the other world began, the one that enchanted me. That world equally full of gods and dragons, where I can see the child with his slingshot slip into the whispering forest behind the village. Every sense alert to the slightest quiver that might carry a message, he listens as the trees speak to him in the language of the birds high in the tall branches…