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“The slaughter had affected him in certain special ways: he detested the smell of sugarcane
(except the way it disappeared in rum) and loathed the taste of parsley; he could not swim in
rivers; the sound of Spanish being spoken—even by Haitians—made his eyes widen, his breath
quicken, his face cloud with terror, his lips unable to part one from the other and speak….Before
swallowing a mouthful [of rum], he would spill the costly rum on the ground, forming a circle of
bubbled dust for the ones we don’t see, the untouchables, the invisibles.”