Paz wrote: >>I'll never forget the premise of bringing ice to the Indians.<<
Paul Theroux in 'Mosquito Coast' may not have been the first to discuss this premise. "Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember the distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Thus reads one of the most famous opening lines in all literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. Gabo's genius was to make the normal (ice) seem extraordinary while making the paranormal (Remedios the Beauty's ability to fly) seem totally normal. The world Gabo portrays in this book is wonderful and if Catherine has not read this book, or started one of the many other good recommendations, then this book is one of the treasures of world literature. Read it. mike in Barcelona np Joe Henderson 'blue bossa'
