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The hand that returns us to life does so in silence. That is its mystery
Who is Ruth Vargas Leyva? What is "The Beneficent Hand"?
Broad patterns.
Collects and connects excerpts at the level of ideas.
What is a Thematic Reading?
A group of practices that re-articulates meaning in a way that it produces what it seeks indirectly
What is Semiophany?
Underlying all distinct passionate expressions is the other.
Who is Diamela Eltit? What is the Soul's Infarct?
The lords of life, the lords of life,—
I saw them pass,
In their own guise,
Like and unlike,
Portly and grim,
Use and Surprise,
Surface and Dream
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson? What is "Experience"?
One person, or various people, in normal physical and psychological conditions, though living under a system of deeply oppressive institutions, could voluntarily imagine for themselves conditions more in line with their own potential and aptitudes.
Who is Beatriz Nascimento? What is the Dialectic of the Sea?
Dread, tension, numbness
What are Affects?
The two projects I have indicated (an infinite vocabulary for the·natural series of numbers, a useless mental catalogue of all the images of his memory) are senseless, but they betray a certain stammering grandeur.
Who is Jorge Luis Borges? What is "Funes the Memorious"?
Sometimes it is necessary to go alone, to swim by oneself, next to no one, in order to join a communion in the water. In geology, residence time is a concept used to measure the duration or persistance of a substance or a portion of material or a body in a specific location, such as the ocean, earth, or atmosphere. It could be water in a pool.
Who is Cristina Rivera Garza? What is Liliana's Invicible Summer?
A historian who takes this as his point of departure stops telling the sequence of events like the beads of a rosary. Instead, he grasps the constellation which his own era has formed with a definite earlier one
Who is Walter Benjamin? What are the Theses on the Philosophy of History?
The point is to “let off steam.”
What is Carnival?
Sounds. Voices. Whisperings. Singing off in the distance:
My girl gave me a tissue
with edges made for crying...
Who is Juan Rulfo? What is Pedro Páramo?
Until that day I had been quite respectful of Valle. He was the only boy in the school who liked to read. He hid novels and other books under the mattress of his bed. The priests watched him carefully because he declared himself to be an atheist and lent books to the other boys. "God does not exist," he' d say as he entered the chapel. "I am my own God. "
Who is José María Arguedas? What is Deep Rivers?
The infrastructure of Catholicism had to be improvised within the colonial setting, not simply imported into it.
Who is Jennifer Scheper Hughes? What is the corpus coloniae mysticum?
A notion that suggests that our affects and dispositions are in a sort of economy.
What is Expenditure?
Later I noted as I looked down, "From century to century things grow more estranged."
Who is Walter Benjamin? What is "Hashish in Marseilles"?
Bounty of waters flooding from this well
invigorates all earth, high heaven, and hen
in dark of night.
Who is St. John of the Cross? What is "Song of the Soul"?
Then I realized what happened to me: since I was a kid, the fantastic was not to me what people considered fantastic; for me, it was a form of reality that in determinate circumstances could manifest, to me or others, through a book or an event, but it was not scandalous within a given reality
Who is Julio Cortázar? What are the Berkeley Lectures?
A principle of organization
What is Mezcalito? What are spirits / gods?
In the midst of this circle of presences
I am myself: matter
that burns, diffuses heat and light,
I snap out the reply, rejoicing: "All's well!"
Who is Rosario Castellanos? What is "Consciousness"?