Thirst, ceci est mon sang

Several Mexicans have already died of thirst. c) hell (l. 29) U N IT 8 • 169 UNIT 8 14 BORDERLANDS a) Cándido Guzman and Manuela Guzman. They are brother and sister. (“stared madly at her brother”, l. 37). b) They tried to walk out of the deadly desert and to find help, but with the other Mexicans, they endured the terrible pain of a scorching sun. / they endured excruciating pains. Most of them slowly died of thirst. They had nothing to quench their thirst and no glimmer of hope. Manuela dies

he prefers his underground. And yet at one point he cries out, “But here, too, I'm lying! Lying, because I myself know, like two times two, that it is not at all the underground that is better, but something different, completely different, which I thirst for but cannot ever find!” Clearly, the terms of this polemic, if polemic it is, go beyond the opposing of one set of ideas with another. Something strange seems to have happened to Dostoevsky after his return from exile. It is as if the world

foot in the air. You still know where it is in relation to the rest of you. Every self-respecting neurologist has their own opinion about whether there are more than these nine. Some argue that there are up to twenty-one. What about hunger? Or thirst? The sense of depth, or the sense of meaning, or language? Or the endlessly intriguing subject of synaesthesia, where senses collide and combine so that music can be perceived in color? And what about the sense of electricity, or even impending danger

Ganelon. Though early Latin and Arab texts record the event, there is no written trace of a vernacular tradition of oral transmission before the 8 THE MIDDLE AGES 1060s when, according to William of Malmesbury, a jongleur named Taillefer sang the heroic exploits of Roland to Norman soldiers before the battle of Hastings. On the other hand, the times were favourable to a great leap forward and there is good reason to speak of a ‘twelfthcentury renaissance’. By 1200, both language and poetic