“Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair -- Look at what's really there.”

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Wendelin Van Draanen 47
American writer 1965

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His face was thin and fleshless as a bone.
His tangled, bristling hair, inspiring dread,
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Quasi ascosi avea gli occhi ne la testa,
La faccia macra, e come un osso asciutta,
La chioma rabuffata, orrida e mesta,
La barba folta, spaventosa e brutta.
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put up his aluminum tree.
It looked pretty strange
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“Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue?”

for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born

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