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"Death is living forever."

"I hear you, sir, and I say that time lasts and doesn’t. It can be as long as a day’s illness or short, as short as my grandmother’s ninety years, which were portrayed in the blink of my grandfather’s eyes."

Her whole body of work can be read as a treatise on time and memory. She said she’d learned her conception of time from her father—who knew about Buddhism, read Eisenstein—and from the Nahuas in Iguala. Not a linear time, but cyclical or simultaneous, depending on the space and the mood, where present, past, future, and other unnamable times coexist. And a memory that makes time, that is time and existence.

"Real murder is wiping from one’s own and other people's memories the image of someone, that someone not only ceases to exist, but never existed, isn’t even a shadow. That three-month interruption of memory is a mystery as important as my first memory."~Elena Garro

Silvina ocampo refused to sign a letter (Borges and bioy cesares signed

The problem with the word “madwoman” is that for centuries it’s been an umbrella term for any female suffering depression, any woman who is an activist, is frightened, angry, extroverted, or rebellious. A way of dismissing them all without taking into account the complexity of their emotions, their situations, and the role society has had in shaping their circumstances.

The oblem with the word “madwoman” is that for centuries it’s been an umbrella term for any female suffering depression, any woman who is an activist, is frightened, angry, extroverted, or rebellious. A way of dismissing them all without taking into account the complexity of their emotions, their situations, and the role society has had in shaping their circumstances.

THE CONSOLATION OF THE TAROT

Campesino=peasant

Rubén Jaramillo 遭謀殺滅口

畫家Jesús Guerrero Galván（Elena妹妹Deva的丈夫）