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.

[…] 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.