Word: tortillas
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...Well, yes, Senorita, I think it will rain; it will rain. But later." She invites you into her house--"Come in, Senorita, come in. It's very humble here, but...You wouldn't like a taco, Senorita?" And she hands you beans enveloped in a tortilla like the ones her children are eating...
...here it is very tranquil." Senora Dolores moved from Mexico City when she married her husband six years ago. She found it difficult to adjust to country ways at first--she had never made a tortilla or scrubbed clothes on rocks before--but "You grow accustomed." Her husband won't let her go to the city to see her family because "if I went, I would stay," and he doesn't like her to make friends among the other village women...
Indeed, though the man is an enigma wrapped in mystery wrapped in a tortilla, the work is beautifully lucid. Castaneda's story unfolds with a narrative power unmatched in other anthropological studies. Its terrain?studded with organ-pipe cacti, from the glittering lava massifs of the Mexican desert to the ramshackle interior of Don Juan's shack?becomes perfectly real. In detail, it is as thoroughly articulated a world as, say, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. In all the books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves...
...Father Victor Salandini's symbolic act in offering Mass with a tortilla [July 26] was a beautiful expression of a priest's dedication and identification with the culture and struggle of Chicano farm workers...
...banned in some parts of the lot. Many campers prefer to eat at the local beaneries, but a few still cook on their own fires with supplies from a local supermarket. "They're really roughing it today," says Supermarket Clerk Vic Gerouche as he bags Styrofoam cups, Tortilla Chips, Rice-A-Roni and four hunks of bubble gum for a camping family...