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The Indians were delighted to accept a new god, but reluctant to relinquish many of the old ones.

— Sybille Bedford The Sudden View (1953)

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At half past ten, Don Otavio issues from the house, splendid like the moon, all in white silk, his silvery hair brushed upwards, a Charvet tie over his holy shirt, bearing nothing.

A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico (1960)

The descendants of the Aztecs sleeping on the pavements of Mexico City are paupers. We speak of poverty as being abject, extreme, dire, genteel; crippling, unmitigated, relative. It can be all of these, but it is always the last.

The Sudden View (1953)

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