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A little pun in his Nobel lecture appears to gloss over, and even celebrate, the privations of underdevelopment: "In the Antilles poverty is poetry with a 'v,' une vie , a condition of life as well as of imagination."
The northwest of Puerto Rico is the surfing capital of the Antilles, with great waves rising offshore.
He and his twin brother, Roderick, were born in 1930 in St. Lucia, a small link in the Antilles island chain, then part of the British West Indies.
Depending on what kind of person you are, this may mean you should 1) establish an offshore casino in the Antilles before the Department of Justice cracks down, or 2) wait for this stuff to shake itself out before you blow 20 bucks playing Web roulette.
In the rest of The Bounty , Walcott relinquishes such allusive density for the simple, history-erasing realities of life in the Antilles islands: the mango trees that "serenely rust when they are in flower," the firefly that "keeps striking matches."