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    The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under all the parade of human effort and noise, today is like yesterday, and tomorrow will be like today; that existence is a wheel of recurring patterns from which no one escapes; that all anybody does in this life is live for a while and then die for good, without finding out much; and that therefore the idea is to take things easy and enjoy the passing time under the sun. The white people charging hopefully around the islands these days in the noon glare, making deals, bulldozing airstrips, hammering up hotels, laying out marinas, opening new banks, night clubs, and gift shops, are to him merely a passing plague. They have come before and gone before.


    — Herman Wouk

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    Wouk often refers to his journals to check dates and facts in his writing and he was hesitant to let the originals out of his personal possession. His family was Jewish and had emigrated from Russia. The result was a publiHerman Woukr's contract sent to Wouk's ship then off the coast of Okinawa.

    : /ˈwoʊk/; born May 27 1915) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author whose novels include The Caine Mutiny The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. His brother Victor Wouk (1919–2005) was an electrical engineer a pioneer in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles.

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