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Every time he came from Africa he stopped at the island of Sal,
which is in fact a salt rock in the middle of the Atlantic.
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At the end of the island, beyond the village of Santa Maria
and its cemetery with the painted tombs,
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it suffices to walk straight ahead to meet the desert.
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He wrote me:
I've understood the visions.
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Suddenly you're in the desert the way you are in the night;
whatever is not desert no longer exists.
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You don't want to believe the images that crop up.
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Did I write you that there are emus in the Ile de France?
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This nameIsland of France
sounds strangely on the island of Sal.
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My memory superimposes two towers:
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the one at the ruined castle of Montpilloy
that served as an encampment for Joan of Arc,
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and the lighthouse tower at the southern tip of Sal,
probably one of the last lighthouses to use oil.