“I once heard a grouty northern invalid say that a coconut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like a feather-duster struck by lightning.”
Mark Twain
Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s
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