Putigny B. Tahiti and Its Islands

2nd Edition. – Two Continents Pub. Group, 1976. – 136 p.In order to preserve the glamour of this dreamland, I should have allowed it to remain untouched. For those around me have spoiled my Tahiti, trying to explain it according to their own ways. They are those who drag along their empty characters, their down-to-earth ideas, everywhere they go, soiling all poetry with their mockery, their own insensibility and their foolishness. And civilisation has come here too often — all our conventions, our habits, our vices. And this wild poetry fades away, with all the manners and traditions of the past.