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"Gradually the magic of the island setteld over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquiility, a timelessness, about it, so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful like a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality" (46).