[…] he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.

Condé innovates, or at least transforms, this structure to generate a response uttered in the speech of the Caribbean night: from dusk to foredawn (the deceased being evoked only at night?) in opposition to Faulkner's story “On the Road” (entirely typical of the American imaginary), the story of a long funerary voyage to pick up Carson McCullers's expression cited by Michel Gresset in his preface to the bilingual Folio edition of As I Lay Dying.

the Maltſter will ſtir his Barley Couches till the Sprit begins to fork , five or ſix times a day or more ; it being always his Care to keep them from drying too much on the outſides

The slew of New Yorkian high-rises that began to scale the Abidjan skyline and good road networks linking most of the major towns were built on cash from agriculture.