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Fisherman Afa promised to take old Hounakin out in his canoe to fish,
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AFA: (to Hounakin) You can swim, papa?
HOUNAKIN: Non.
AFA: (sitting down suddenly, interested now that the canoe is equipped for work) Tell me again, old man, why for you want to work the sea? And you so old? You never stay in your house and hear wind breaking wood trees?
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HOUNAKIN: Don’t worry, you will not see this old man so again, only, a man must talk, old man talk to the wind or man go mad … (Afa offers him bread.) I have no heart to eat. I old, old, more old than Dauphin self. Rama and I see when didn’t have no Dauphin, only cane, and a green river by the canes. We come here first.
Derek Walcott, The Sea at Dauphin, in Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970. pp.62-66.
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