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You can't train a pig to write poetry.

True, Malinowski writes about ‘niggers’, ‘negroes’, ‘brutes’, ‘boys’, and ‘savages’, but then we read the same in Conrad in his similarly introspective encounters with primaevality in the South Seas.

Even the coaita, screened by the intervention of the bodies, had, for the time, ceased to utter its cries of alarm.