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Article: 2061. (fiction) (excerpt from 'The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identity in America) (Latin America: Private Eyes & Time Travelers)
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
- Author:
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I HAD A PLEASANT DREAM in which I saw the future in our Americas. According to my abstruse calculations, it took place in the year 2061, more than a couple of centuries after the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty. Made of disconnected halves, I found myself in bizarre, almostunrecognizable locations--one looking like Santa Barbara, California; the other, a tropical setting, probably Havana. For inexplicable reasons, during the whole dream I longed for the ugly metropolitan landscapes of my Mexican childhood, which I was able to invoke in brief conversations with a waitress I saw at a college cafeteria.
Ultramodern architecture, without the slightest hint of baroque style, ...
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