← Back – CH9A – Next → LIFE AMONG CANNIBALSGetting Bored, On to another Adventure It was August 1933 and time came for Theo and Lucas to leave. “The sadness of our departure was offset by a sumptuous farewell feast provided by
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← Back – CH8 – Next → BACK TO TAHITI AND MOREA Once back in Tahiti, Theo hired a lorry, loaded Gauguin’s tombstone aboard and made a beeline for the museum and marched into the office of the curator, a kindly old
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← Back – CH7B – Next → SOJOURN IN THE MARQUESASFalling In Love with Hiva Oa Theo fell in love with Hiva Oa, as Gauguin had done, and found a thatched hut he rented for a few francs and decided to remain
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← Back – CH7A – Next → TO THE SOUTH SEASPainting His Date Theo wanted more than anything else to see the Marquesas. After all it was here that Gauguin lived and here he had died. He and Lucas booked passage aboard
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← Back – CH6 – Next → THIS CAN’T BE TAHITI Theo and Lucas disembarked to find themselves smothered in flowered leis. They set out to find lodging. There were only two tourist-type hotels on the waterfront, and these were clapboard, two-story
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← Back – CH5B – Next → TO THE SOUTH SEASPainting His Date It was in the Two Mosquitoes bar that Theo saw Maria. She was voluptuous. She was tall, her legs long. Her fine breasts protruded out from her cotton blouse,
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← Back – CH5A – Next → TO THE SOUTH SEAS Theo was set for the journey when he stepped down from the train in Marseille, dressed in his white cotton suit and solar topee. Lucas, who was a head taller than
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Chapter 4bThe Awakening Theo kept his world hidden to himself. It was fantasy he kept stored away in the back of his mind. It probably would have remained there, forever, un-nurtured and perhaps even to be forgotten, hadn’t it been
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Chapter 4aBREAKING AWAY As I mentioned, Theo had returned to Basel without a mark, without a franc in his pocket. He had spent the last of his money for his train fare back from Germany. Very disillusioned and uncertain which
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Chapter 3bAdventurous Feeling Theo arrived at the port of Paimpol, thrilled beyond expectation, and he couldn’t believe what opened up before him. The sea! A pulsating waterfront! The lighting was poor and the sky overcast but what did that matter!
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