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The sound of things falling is a book about Bogotá, and poetry is a huge part of that city's history. A part I don't know much about at all... Looks like I am going to be learning a bit as I make my way through the book. Early in the second chapter we find a reference to León de Greiff, Antonio quotes from his "Admonición a los impertenentes" as he says he doesn't want his family visiting him.

Yo deseo estar solo. Non curo de compaña.
Quiero catar silencio. Non me peta mormurio
ninguno a la mi vera. Si la voz soterraña
de la canción adviene, que advenga con sordina:
si es la canción ruidosa, con mi mudez la injurio;
si tráe mucha música, que en el Hades se taña
o en cualquiera región al negro Hades vecina...
Ruido: ¡Callad! Pregón de aciago augurio!
Yo deseo estar solo. Non curo de compaña.
Quiero catar silencio, mi sóla golosina.

Como yo soy el Solitario,
como yo soy el Taciturno,
dejádme solo.

Before dying Caldas wrote on the wall a large Greek letter θ, which has been interpreted as exclaiming "Oh larga y negra partida!"
(See Crónicas de Bogotá Segunda Edición Tomo III, Pedro M. Ibáñez)

posted afternoon of Sunday, August 4th, 2013
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Y otra referencia ni poética ni Bogotana -- Antonia imagina "a city in which the streets, the sidewalks, gradually closed themselves off to us, like the rooms of the house in Julio Cortazar's story, until eventually expelling us." Habla de Casa Tomada.

posted evening of August 4th, 2013 by Jeremy

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