It is Wednesday, and Julio Cortázar is re-fascinating me. This is the beginning of the first chapter of Rayuela, called chapter 73. Sí, pero quién nos curará del fuego sordo, del fuego sin color que corre al anochecer por la Rue de la Huchette, saliendo de los portales carcomidos, de los parvos zaguanes, del fuego … More Chapter 73
Pass it on, and republish often. Axé.
This is extremely interesting, but what about moving directly to anarchy? While waiting, we must see this film. Axé.
On May 13, 1888, slavery was abolished in Brazil. One can compare dates for this throughout the Americas, and it is instructive. In news of my own, less important emancipation of which this blog is an instrument, I might be adjusting at last to Maringouin. This is very interesting since I have been here a … More Treze de Maio
Havana in the 1930s. Axé.
This weblog does not support and is not now discussing PORFIRIO DIAZ, but is amazed to have located his actual voice, speaking to THOMAS EDISON. You can tell that Mexico has technology because you can find so much original footage of so many relatively early events so easily. Today, as we know, we celebrate a … More México lindo y herido
This is Friday, Oxalá’s day. The sun makes the cobblestones shine like silver, and everyone is wearing white. Axé.
Not being clean the place smelled ripe. The proprietors attempted to mask this by putting the air conditioning on cold and the fan on high. Those of us familiar with frozen lands already knew how a cold breeze draws attention to grime. Axé.
The moral thrust of Dinesen’s tales leads here, to a representation of life as performance–a necessary fiction. In her pliable and accommodating theater, the truth is found in the design of the stories we tell in order to understand whom we might become. Throughout her career, with both the fiction and nonfiction, Dinesen is urging … More Isak Dinesen
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 