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Key West: Tropical Transformations & Other Titillations
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In the American tropics of Key West, a vine called a moonflower
can cover a seven-foot chain-link fence in 10 days. The natives
swear you can watch the moonflower grow. When I heard this I knew I
had an image for the feeling of the place-that cloudy Yankee metal,
nothing but useful, a staple of ordinariness all over the country,
sewn up in a month with creepers and blooms, bright birds singing
unseen in the new thicket. Key West is an American small town that
the tropics and the sea have changed into something rich and strange.
Here U.S. 1 comes to its end. Having impaled the commuting ...
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