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...narrator’s Uncle Fernando air-dropped into a remote and impoverished Native American community. The near-lunar landscape, its equally alien and wordless inhabitants, and the echoes of pre-Colombian rite and myth manage, for nine pages, to hold in thrall the “civilized?? characters and, I suspect, Fuentes himself. Even more stunning are Fuentes’ descriptions of the overlooked wonders of the human body. An elbow, the parting of hair, the scent of an armpit—these details become objects of ecstatic worship or muted reverence. This exquisite poetry remains miraculously...
Upon arriving at the airport in America--where his behavior makes Roberto Benigni at the Oscars look civilized??his response to everything is simply “bravo.” This may inspire a chuckle the first few times, but rest assured that it quickly becomes exasperating...
...navigate confidently through the problems they will face in life and yet self-aware enough to recognize their limitations.” And who would dispute that graduates “should also have a firm moral compass,” or that they “should be civilized?? and “civil?...
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