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The Leeward Islands
are in Polynesia?
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When were you there?
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My first post, after the war.
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It's where they send young judges,
and unfortunate elders
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of dubious value.
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A sort of tropical exile.
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A ''high proficiency judge''...
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It means nothing.
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It's the story: a young fool,
full of lofty ideals,
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thinking himself justice incarnate,
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is parachuted into an earthly
paradise where no one gives a damn.
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A sort of travel story.
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An initiatory one.
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In the style
of a violent deflowering.
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Shall we begin?
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Does the light bother you?
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Is there a reflection
on the screen?
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I'm fine.
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Once it's dark,
the lamp should be strong enough.
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You may begin.
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You suddenly appear so...studious.
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''I had never left France.''Period.
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''A wandering father had soured
my taste for travel.'' Period.
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''I countered his transitoriness,
my mother's bane,
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''by taking the bench as a judge,''
- comma -
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''sedentary by nature.''
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She'll get it. New paragraph.
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''When I learned
of my first posting,'' - comma -
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''I looked for the name Ururoa
on an atlas,
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''but it wasn't to be found.''
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I looked for the name...