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Updated: June 29, 2025
There followed a silence which endured several minutes; or, rather a tableau. The candles for McClintock never used oil in his dining room were burning low in the sconces. Occasionally the flames would bend, twist and writhe crazily as the punka-boy bestirred himself. McClintock's astonishment merged into a state of mild hypnosis. That any human being could conceive and execute such a thing!
And then, above his head, Hemingway heard the lazy whisper of the punka, and from the harbor the raucous whistle of the Crown Prince Eitel, signalling her entrance. The world had not stopped; for the punka-boy, for the captain of the German steamer, for Harris seated with face averted, the world was still going gayly and busily forward. Only for him had it stopped.
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