To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name,
To live in mankind, far, far more ... than to live in a name.
THE CONGO[[35]]
(A Study of the Negro Race)
I. Their Basic Savagery
Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, |A deep rolling bass.|
Pounded on the table,
Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,