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| "This is fun, I said ... Then from now on you do all the ironing around the house" (160) |
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Working Women
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The owl about to pounce
"Then I heard it. It was the call of Ultima's owl. ... it shrieked into the wind, dove and pounced on the coyotes. Her sharp claws found flesh ..." (Chapter Diez)
El mercado
"a woman arranged plaster heads of Jesus crowned with thorns,
blood dripping into his upturned eyes." (87)
"on the wall a picture of Jesus wearing the same
exasperated expression as the statues in the mercado." (94)
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Negi and Delsa
"Two Sisters" by Gauguin
Food
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| "If we eat all that American food the give us at the centro communal, will we become Americanos?" (74) |
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| "The Bananas" by Paul Gauguin |
Tembleque
Arroz con dulce
Peacock and Hen
"The drape covering the blinds also had peacocks on it ... their plumage spread into a thousand blue-green eyes that seemed to watch us." (91)
Tropical Fruits
"guavas are large and juicy, almost seedless" (3)
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Mangos
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Art by Francisco Oller
El Mangle
"... we were walking on a bridge. It was slippery and narrow,
with nothing to hold on to along the sides. If we took one false step,
we would fall into black, smelly water." (130)
Art by Yuon 
The Captain
She saw dark skin and the eyes of a ferocious puma, and she knew immediately that she was standing before the loneliest man in the world. (____) - Quentin
Art by Fernando Botero
Art by Fernando Botero
Peeled Orange
"He sat on the stoop and peeled it for me in one long ribbon that curled and whirled and circled on itself orange, white, orange." (96)
Men
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| "... the Puerto Rican country dweller, the jibaro" (12) |
"Don Berto, Juanita's grandfather ... every time I saw him he was sitting on his front steps sharpening his machete. His skin was so black and wrinkled ..." (49)
Papi's father.
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