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... forms and formulas that have been imposed on us and the explosions with which our individuality avenges itself . Form has rarely been an original creation , an equilibrium arrived at through our instincts and desires rather than at ...
... forms and formulas that have been imposed on us and the explosions with which our individuality avenges itself . Form has rarely been an original creation , an equilibrium arrived at through our instincts and desires rather than at ...
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... forms in- tended to cover up the abuses of the conquistadors or to justify them to themselves and their victims . To a certain extent this accusation is true , but it is no less true that these other - worldly aspirations were more than ...
... forms in- tended to cover up the abuses of the conquistadors or to justify them to themselves and their victims . To a certain extent this accusation is true , but it is no less true that these other - worldly aspirations were more than ...
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... forms that had expressed it could not be resolved by the adoption of a philosophy which was not - and could not be - the philosophy of the Mexican nation . The same conflict damages the political and economic forms created by the ...
... forms that had expressed it could not be resolved by the adoption of a philosophy which was not - and could not be - the philosophy of the Mexican nation . The same conflict damages the political and economic forms created by the ...
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The Pachuco and Other Extremes | 9 |
Mexican Masks | 29 |
The Day of the Dead | 47 |
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