Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World

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Title: Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher:  Harper Perennial
Year: 1957/2006
240 pages

Bowles manages to seem both prissy and racist in this half-century-old volume of travel pensees. Replete with noble and ignoble savages, the collection works best when Bowles discusses music or music and culture; it fares considerably worse when he pontificates on culture alone in what I assume was meant to be a jocular manner.