A review by cgiles310
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay

3.0

“When the feasting was finished the belly-moving beat of the drum roused the people again after an interval of rest to dancing and chanting over and over again repeating and reiterating from pattern to pattern unraveling the threads of life from the most intricate to the simplest to the naked bottoms as if in evocation of the first gods who emerged out of the ancient unfathomed womb of Africa to procreate and spread over the fast surface of the land.”