Monday, November 24, 2014

It's All in the Name

My cousin Alejandra, who lives in Yucatan, is a historian and a Mayan scholar. She sent me this wonderful Mayan translation of La Caguama Blanca: "X-Sak Noj Áak" or, X (The) Sak (white) Noj (big) Áak (turtle).  Now I have to learn to pronounce it.

Lately, whenever I think of the name of this blog, my mind, sadly, goes to this:

That opening scene is a hell even Sartre couldn't have dreamed up.

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