"There are many ways to erase the past. In the 1990s, in Bogota, my secondary school thought it important that students learn English.... In their classrooms... they lectured us on things that were hard for us to grasp. For example: that realistic fiction was Jane Austen, and fantasy fiction was Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Magical realism was just realism to us, and Jane Austen was not any life that was possible in our land. Still, they renewed their efforts to teach us clear boundaries, strict differentiations. There were names for what some of us lived, saw, and believed--legends, superstitions, fictions."
"A circle is a straight line, haunted by something living at its middle-- a ghost that causes it to bend and bend."
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