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| 21 | 66 | "There are View more quotes about subtle">subtle drums, too, demanding, insistent, maddening, exciting, sensuous drums, of course," said Peisistratus. |
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| 21 | 63 | "They speak of blood, and life, and excitement," said Cabot. |
| 21 | 64 | "They have their drums," said Peisistratus, "and we have ours, as well". |
| 21 | 65 | "Yes," said Cabot, "of war, and the march, sometimes to measure the stroke of oars, occasionally to signal the opening and closing of markets, of gates, and such". |
| 21 | 66 | "There are subtle drums, too, demanding, insistent, maddening, exciting, sensuous drums, of course," said Peisistratus. |
| 21 | 67 | "True," said Cabot. |
| 21 | 68 | This was presumably an allusion to the use of drums, together with other instruments, we may suppose, in slave dance, a form of dance in which a type of human female, the female slave, helpless and vulnerable, as all female slaves, ornamented, and beautifully if scarcely clothed, dances her beauty, hoping to be found pleasing by masters. |
| 21 | 69 | If she is not, she knows she may be whipped, perhaps slain. |