Trinidad's Carnival, which was cancelled this year, has multiple personalities that reveal themselves throughout the celebration. This description of the winding down is from A Way to See the World:
"On Ariapita Street, the steel band Exodus took the lead. The soothing, unamplified music of pans. Men and women in the garb of sailors, many of them older, soft-shoed it up front. They set feet to tapping in lawn chairs strung along the sidewalk, and straw hats bobbing on wooden porches. They passed, with a certain defiance, Lapeyrouse Cemetery. The setting sun elongated their shadows as the strains of "Heavy Roller" - by the great Lord Kitchner - tickled the air.
"That night other steel bands roamed the streets of Port-of-Spain, their fatigued supporters shuffling behind them. The sound of pans splintered off in a dozen directions, like the light carried by candles from a Greek Easter Eve mass."
