Theyre chasing that familiar hit of flavor, but their taste buds just arent playing along anymore
its also about allowing new knowledge in and understanding that it dwells nearby as the exquisite meditation on death at the novels end suggests: the dead stay everlastingly present among us, taking the form of palpable vacancies that only disappear when, as we must, we take them into ourselves
The most interesting thing about this is the amount of effort that has gone into making it appear as though the story is taking place in North America
And then Elena Garro mentionsI don't remember, did you just read that phrase or notbut she does say somewhere that embroidering for her is a method of writing, is her method for writing, which I find beautiful because I've had that experience myself, that having a manual activity, either working in the garden or embroidering or cooking or washing the dishes, is in many of these activities for me where ideas come to my mind, these ideas that then I get to write about
Below, well briefly touch on each of these three main varieties