Now that the antichrist is no longer with us, it's safe to admit that amost
anything can become a prayer.
Mark
At 10:11 AM 5/19/2005, you wrote:
>Reminds me of the Greek phrase book in Cohen's Beautiful Losers, mark.
>Interesting how one can take these things & turn them into a kind of prayer....
>
>That it's “ENGLISH GRAMMAR” translated from the Spanish has an especial
>import, here....
>
>Doug
>On 18-May-05, at 12:26 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>>Fina García-Marruz (Cuban, born 1923), universally referred to simply as
>>Fina, manages some improbable balancing acts. She has declared herself
>>simultaneously a convinced Catholic and a convinced Communist, and she is
>>universally loved despite her very close connection to the regime.
>>
>>Somewhere I read a very moving essay of hers about first hearing of the
>>death of Lorca. I wish I could find it again. She was in the first flush
>>of adolescence, and he was her first love.
>>
>>The selection below represents about 2/3 of the sequence, which she
>>published in 1994.
>>
>>Mark
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