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Fogo, as the name suggests,
is an island sculpted by the
fire of a volcano. It’s not « the
volcano on the island, » it’s
the whole island, and the
people live on its back like
those in the Russian tales of
my childhood lived on the
back of a whale. They hollow
out dwellings in the very flanks
of the volcano, you wonder
what they live from, how they
live, what this lava planet is like.