“The Street”‚ by Octavio Paz A long and silent street. I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall and rise‚ and I walk blind‚ my feet stepping on silent stones and dry leaves. Someone behind me also stepping on stones‚ leaves: if I slow down‚ he slows; if I run‚ he runs‚ I turn: nobody. Everything dark and doorless. Turning and turning among these corners which lead forever to the street where nobody waits for‚ nobody follows me‚ where I pursue a man who stumbles and rises and says
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Octavio Paz is Mexico’s greatest living poet. But let’s face it: that’s like saying William Carlos Williams was Paterson’s best writer. For Americans‚ a better way of indicating Paz’s importance will have to be found. Perhaps it would be more suggestive to say that in the universe of Latin American writing‚ Neruda’s poetry is solar: a lavish‚ Hispanic ful-mination--like a Tamayo watermelon--and Paz’s poetry lunar: a rarer‚ Gallic luminosity--like a Magritte moon--; or‚ to put it another way
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Rizal Sired Hitler By: Ambeth R. Ocampo Philippines Daily Inquirer Lifestyle (C3) Monday‚ June 19‚ 1995 EVERYWHERE I lecture on Rizal‚ one question never fail to arise in the open forum—"Is it true that Adolf Hitler is the son of Rizal? This is absolutely absurd‚ but since some fairly educated people actually want to believe it‚ I write this column.The argument is that Rizal had a German connection‚ he studied in Heildelberg‚ and being the Pinoy Don Juan he probably sired a son (why not a
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all of us‚ but as someone who could have been the person living next door. He was an extraordinary man‚ I admit‚ a genius even. But he was human all the same. That was what struck me most in the article entitled Rizal and Children‚ written by Ambeth Ocampo. The plainness in which he was presented is what prompted me to read the article to the end. The article talked about the letters exchanged between Rizal and his family. I have always wondered how Jose Rizal felt while he was away from his home‚ traveling
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The Blue Bouquet Have you even been in a situation when you have gone from total innocence to experience in a short period of time? In the short story “The Blue Bouquet” written by Octavio Paz‚ the main character starts off by waking up from a nap and going on a walk even after being warned not to by the owner of the boardinghouse. Whilst out the protagonist gets stopped in the middle of the night by another man with a knife who wanted something very unusual. It wasn’t money or jewelry; it was
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Introduction Writer Octavio Paz Of Mexico‚ visited India in 1951 as an employee of the Mexican embassy‚ as Mexico tried to develop their relations with India after it gained independence in 1947. On receiving his transfer letter in Paris‚ where he was formerly employed‚ Paz gives us an insight in his essay that he was devastated to leave Paris. After an elaborately modern and intellectual description of Paris as a city that appealed the dream of the west‚ Octavio Paz insists that the news of his
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Reish Lee Malicdem R45? Finally! My semester has just ended. I’m getting about two weeks off from the university before another one starts. I’m going to catch up on my reading list‚ I’ve fallen way behind schedule. Haha! Anyway‚ one of my courses this semester was PI 100 or the "Rizal" course. As one of our final requirements‚ we were required to submit an essay on Ambeth Ocampo’s renowned book Rizal Without the Overcoat. Here’s what I wrote (crammed might be a better word choice) Heh heh:
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Facts About Dr. Jose Rizal Jose P. Rizal‚ a man of exceptional talent and intelligence‚ is the National Hero of the Philippines. That’s a fact (and might be the only fact) that every Filipino knows about Jose Rizal. One might ask‚ “How about his name?” Well‚ that might be uneasy because his full name is José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda. Let’s be honest that if we will be asked by some people about some things related to Rizal without the help of any references‚ we can only say
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Widely called the greatest poet of his time in Mexico‚ Octavio Paz brought about a life that in several ways was typical in the Mexican intelligentsia he describes inside Labyrinth of Solitude. He published a lot more than thirty books regarding poetry‚ fought with the Loyalists in The nation‚ and served his country to be a diplomat. Deeply mixed up in future of the Mexican land‚ he fitted him or her self out for defining it to the world by doing a career which included experiences regarding both
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In this highly analytical and descriptive article‚ Anthony C. Ocampo explores and argues the particular way in which gay Latino men negotiate the aspects and boundaries of masculinity. For instance‚ Ocampo demonstrates that gay Latino men are in fact accepting of their sexual orientation‚ however‚ they do not do it in the traditional White gay men stereotypical way. In this traditional or media portrayed sexual orientation‚ gay men‚ particularly gay White men‚ tend to act and appear for feminine
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