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Are you some kind of hypnotist? :: Sunday, July 04, 2004 ::

I'll update with the quotes from the trip tomorrow, but until then, the thinking man's quote (I love this book, by the way):

Two days later, Colonel Gerineldo Maequez, accused of high treason, was condemned to death. Lying in his hammock, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was insensible to the pleas for clemenecy. One the eve of the execution, disobeying the orders not to bother him, Ursula visited him in his bedroom. Encased in black, invested with a rare solemnity, she stood during the three minutes of the interview. "I know that you're going to shoo Gerineldo," she said calmly, "and that I can't do anything to stop it. But I give you one warning: as soon as I see his body, I swear to you by the bones of my father and mother, by the memory of Jose Arcadio Buendia, I swear to you before God that I will drag you out from wherever you're hiding and kill you with your own two hands." Before leaving the room, without waiting for any reply, she concluded: "It's the same as if you'd been born with the tail of a pig.

"Since no one wants to leave, we'll leave all by ourselves." Ursual did not become upset. "We will not leave," she said. "We will stay here, because we have a son here."
"We have still not had a death," he said. "A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground."

-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

:: Nick Sunday, July 04, 2004 [+] ::