light-go

Updated: May 6, 2025

But by night, after ten, it is filled with flitting figures of girls, with wreaths of white flowers, keeping assignations.... It is all all Papeete like a Renaissance Italy with the venom taken out, No, simpler, light-come and light-go, passionate and forgetful, like children, and all the time South Pacific, that is to say unmalicious and good-tempered.

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