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"Mauritius is a very small island, a rock cast out in the vast ocean, so that when one begins to find oneself, one is inevitably overcome by a feeling of constriction, both way, the branches draw your eyes outward and away, beyond the outermost leaves. This constant toing-and-froing of the eye conditions what many call the soul but for which I have no name. No matter, everything overflows and reaches out...""