MEMBER BLOG TAG: new mexico
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 12:00AM | | | | Le Clezio and Adam Gopnik | Tags: Le Clezio, Creolization, spam, New Mexico, landscape, language as life
| | | Pen pointed out that we are celebrating World Voices while the rest of the world is putting up its hands in defeat... So this is the celebration. Nice to hear Le Clezio speaking of looking out his window in Albuquerque and seeing tumbleweed: that's very delightful, since when we look out of OUR window we see other buildings. And just as nice to hear about where his family has settled, that "we are nearly everywhere."
Creolization, he says, is a great thing, since it means adaptation to new ways of life... He remembers begging the GI's for food, having subsisted on roots, and being given Spam, chewing gum, and white bread.
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