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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
Even though I bought the 1859 edition of On the Origin of the Species, I started reading “Entangled Life” instead, thanks to a dramacel recommendation, @rDramaHistorian I'm on chapter 3 and the book is great.
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In the Distance by Hernan Diaz. In the 1800s, a naive, penniless, non-Engish speaking Swedish boy gets separated from his brother on his way to New York, ending up instead in San Francisco. The book follows his journey trying to reunite with his brother.
The book was pretty good. Unfortunately, I found myself comparing it to Blood Meridian, which is way better, especially re: the darker scenes.
The worst scene was when the wise Native American healer knows to boil medical cowtools in water and wash hands with alcohol, showing how the Natives were soooo much smarter than Western medicine.
The author uses "charqui" instead of "jerky" and "cañon" instead of "canyon" in order to ... de-colonize literature I guess.
Not surprisingly, the author is the child of Argentinian leftists who fled to Sweden.
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Latam leftoids love the noble savage myths, they're quite alive among them
The most annoying Argentinian and Chilean diasporacels are the one's who fled in exile to Western Europe, Northern Europe, Canada, Australia and ironically enough the US during the 1970s only to serve as mouthpieces for the eastern block and whine about NATO, the CIA and the West. Isabel Allende is another one.
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