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It was more than a year later, in the Gilberts, that the explanation dawned upon myself. The natives were drawing palm-tree wine, a thing forbidden by law; and when the wind thus suddenly revealed them, they were doubtless more troubled than ourselves.
Here is an incident contained in a paragraph. Hindsight rounds the story off. The visual context, the island ambience, the culture clash are all there. And so is the author, taking a step back, looking at himself and his companions. The writer of first person documentary has to be observer, participant and artist. Stevenson highlights these roles by adopting a tone of mild irony, which also softens the nuts and bolts of his style, and maintains the distance between observer and actor. Twentieth-century writers would probably feel it was not so important to be scrupulous about distinguishing these roles, yet Stevenson’s control of tone gives a true modernity to h
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