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...LOSS OF EL DORADO by V.S. Naipaul. 335 pages. Knopf...
Indeed, the whole enchanted continent, originally colonized by white men in pursuit of El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth, is encapsulated in Macondo. The only trace of the Protestant ethic in the town is the operation of the U.S banana company-and the "gringos" are plainly mean, greedy, and probably crazy too. The Buendias, on the other hand, are inspired mainly by the magic in life. They see no limit of human potential, mostly because natural miracles abound-a plague of insomnia, showers of dead birds or yellow flowers, the arrival of death as a lady in blue. When...
...DURING Christmas Vacation, I was smuggled into Mexico. I had driven down to the border station at Tijuana from my family's home in Beverly Hills, which is not in fact, an El Dorado filled with Beverly Hillbillies mansions. I was with two friends, one a Harvard freshman who had finagled his father's new Volvo for us. We had a simple one-day romp in mind, to pick up a few exotic Christmas presents and spend money. Just some college kids out for a little...
...folk tales, the power that changes a frog to a prince is called magic. In life, it is known as nostalgia. Wrapped in it, a newspaper becomes an illuminated manuscript, a vulgar city is transformed into El Dorado. Ben Hecht, once one of the highest-paid scenarists in Hollywood, had a nostalgia factory for a brain; what went in as the apprenticeship of a yellow journalist emerged as gilded celebrations of innocence...
...followed Serra to California were lusty freebooters (Puritans, for some reason, had little zest for ?l Dorado). The trait they shared was an ability to build what Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. approvingly called "a special brand of democracy, one based on the notion that the best good of all was served by everyone looking out for himself...