![]() The design made by the feet on wet planks. ![]() Then the brown face beneath, with liquid blue half-tones reflected from the water, then the oily dark torso, foreshortened, the white loincloth, and the sharp legs. The hair was vivid magenta against the arsenic green of a pile of fresh bananas. Idly at first, and then with absurd concentration, he began to memorise, starting with a detail. He had a sudden desire to run a mental ring round the scene beneath him, to isolate it, and make it clear for ever in his mind. In a minute or two now they would slide away, lose significance, and become a vague memory. ![]() ALLEYN LEANT OVER the deck-rail, looking at the wet brown wharf and the upturned faces of the people. ![]()
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