Things did not turn out as he hoped. Having reached Tahiti in June 1891, he soon fled the island's Europeanized capital, Papeete, for the village of Mataiea, where he met Teha'amana, 14, who became his mistress and model.

who has not been sick to death of everything subjective and its accursed ipsissimosity!

a ragged array, consisting of a number of arrays of varying size

cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored