Williwaw - A Novel 5j3650
by Gore Vidal 4e671n
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Williwaw is the Indian word for a big wind peculiar to the Aleutian islands and the Alaskan coast. It is a strong wind that sweeps suddenly down from the mountains toward the sea. The word williwaw, however, is now generally used to describe any big and sudden wind. It is in this last and more colloquial sense that I have used the term.
Someone turned on the radio in the wheelhouse. A loud and sentimental song awakened him. He lay there for a moment in his bunk and stared at the square window in the wall opposite him. A sea gull flew lazily by the window. He watched it glide back and forth until it was out of sight.
He yawned and became conscious of an ache behind his eyes. There had been a party, he ed. He felt sick. The radio became louder as the door to his cabin opened. A brown Indian face looked in at him.
