Post #75178 by virani on Mon, Feb 9, 2004 4:23 AM

You can check out the ARANUI web site at http://www.aranui.com
I heard that the new one is much bigger than the number 2, i hope it's not becoming a big cruse boat for rich people.
Nice conversation about the "maison du jouir", i was wondering if you guys would understood that name...
I can see you're all fluent in french (if it's related to tiki, of course).
I love Gauguin's art, in 2003, there was a big Gauguin retrospective in France, and i had been able to see the walls of his marquesan house... he was also a great sculptor.
If it's translated, try to read Victor Segalen's book about Gauguin. Segalen has come to french Polynesia just after Gauguin's dead and he was able to buy lots of his arts, and he wrote a lot about him.
He also wrote my favorite book of all time : "les immémoriaux", a fiction about the thought of the polynesian while the whites arrive on their land and converts the natives with christanism.