I had reached St. Thomas shortly after breakfast. Letters of introduction had gone ahead of me, and within three hours I was sipping a very dry martini on the balcony of a bungalow situated on the far side of the mountain range that divides the island. A thousand feet below me 'the bright blue meadow a bay' washed in varying shades of green and turquoise against a long white-sanded beach. Beyond it stretched an archipelago of islands, some British, some American, some a bare grazing ground for goats.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I had reached St. Thomas shortly after breakfast. Letters of introduction had gone ahead of me, and within three hours I was sipping a very dry martini on the balcony of a bungalow situated on the far side of the mountain range that divides the island. A thousand feet below me 'the bright blue meadow a bay' washed in varying shades of green and turquoise against a long white-sanded beach. Beyond it stretched an archipelago of islands, some British, some American, some a bare grazing ground for goats." in the context of "(2011), Where the Clocks Chime Twice chapter: II. The Caribbean. 1. The U.S. Virgin Islands, publisher: A&C Black, ISBN: 1448202523 (1st edition 1951 — The phrase ‘the bright blue meadow of a bay’ occurs in J. C. Squire’s 1923 poem To a Roman.)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.