“I met History once, but he ain't recognize me.”
A line from "The Schooner Flight," voiced by the sailor Shabine, on being unseen and unaccounted for by official written history despite carrying its full weight.
— Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia
Source: Derek Walcott, "The Schooner Flight," in The Star-Apple Kingdom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979)
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