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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Kapila Kane[/i] [br]This has been a challenging, but enthralling read... found this because of the AARP 10 questions (to get entries) for the Hawaii trip...which apparently I didn't win. It is a difficult read, with unusual structure, punctuation and form. And perhaps Old News, for more rabid readers. But Merwin knew and included a great deal of Hawaiian history, also Kauai, the AIDS-like attitude toward Leprosy, and the cruelty, racism, and politics of the time. I will never think of the casual references to Leprosy in the same shallow way...and how it all seems to tie in with Hawaiian history and Western colonial abuses for power and control of the late 19th century. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.