From: SteelQueen-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:56:01 EDT
Subject: Re: Naipaul, Trinidad and "extinction"


I'm not too sure which Trinidad you are talking about w/ places called
California.  Do you mean Trinidad, of Trinidad and Tobago?  No California
there.  There's San Fernando, and San Juan, and La Brea, which reflect the
Spanish colonizing moment of the island's history.  Then there is Pointe-a-
Pierre (French--of when I have no idea).  And then there are the names of the
Caribs and Arawaks we love because they just roll off the tongue, such as
Guayaguayare, and the names of the reptiles such as mapapie--are the ones that
come readily to mind.  And, we don't regard these evidences of the presence of
our early ancestors to be remnants or relics of a forgotten past.

Myrna Nurse,
Temple U


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