Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reader to understand what Matthiessen means and how he can come by his beliefs and his escapes. The Himalayan world he depicts is the enactment of his religion. Seen through Western eyes the Himalayan people calmly progress through prayers and days alike, buffetted by little and infrequently alarmed. Their life isn't meaningless, but neither is its meaning marked. It just is, which is precisely Matthiessen's point...
Geochemical Approaches to the Study of the Origin of Life--Prof. C. Ponnamperuma, University of Maryland, Rm. 102, Geological Museum...
FELIX MALDONADO woke up one morning to find he lost his face and name. Or rather, Felix Maldonado woke up one morning and discovered he had undergone plastic surgery and been given an alias. All because he had failed in an assassination plot on Mexico's president's life--an act he had performed against his will...
...habit; a man killed in a meat freezer scrawls the word "nun" in blood on the glass door. The reader, along with Maldonado, wonders whether and why things occur. All the disjointed events arrive at a climactic suspension--Maldonado's second attempt on the President's life. The reader never discovers whether Maldonado is successful the second time...
...sector's desire to gain control of government policy-making concerning oil. In the middle, the confused Maldonado, with his changing faces and indecisiveness, symbolizes Mexico. Fuentes makes him a converted Jew both to emphasize his transformations and his antipathy towards the Arab world. His impotency over his own life is analogous to Mexico's lack of independence in the international scene. Just as Mexico is "in the grips of the beak of the U.S. and Russia", Maldonado is manipulated by absent foreign officials. Oil, the "hydra head of our passions," forces Mexico, the U.S. and the Arab world...