anomalism

Updated: May 3, 2025

These native tongues of the South Seas, with their many vowels and short words, seem to be made for singing. The voyage from Tahiti to Moorea was a two-hours' panorama of magnificence and anomalism in the architecture of nature. Facing my goal was Moorea, and behind me Tahiti, scenes of contrary beauty as the vessel changed the distance from me to them.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.