[elcid1970]

Interesting. It was in 1961, the year of the Anointed One’s birth, that I first became aware of that classic Pacific novel “Hawaiian Rape”, by Kaman Aiwanalaya.

It could bolster his claim to native birth in Hawaii.

[Gargantua]

It was about that same time that I read Michener's Hawaii. No kidding. I was 6 years old, and the back of the soft-cover edition held a supplement called "The Golden Boys" or something like that. Extremely racy and salacious for a first grader, but I was always a very weird kid.

By the time I went to grade school I had read most of my parents' college textbooks. Biology, Zoology, Psychology, etc. Very dry compared to Jimmy Michener, but altogether suitable for fulfilling my voracious need to read and absorb.

I didn't have alot of friends.

;-/