Sublime

In 1869, in Boston, on the 100th anniversary of Humboldt’s birth, Agassiz, by then America’s most renowned naturalist, would recount in a long speech the incredible life of his mentor, the monumental productivity right up until the end, the trip to the Urals in 1829, the historic series of lectures in Berlin, the friendship with Goethe, the new car

inexorable,

clairvoyance.

pomaded

Grasshopper

The year 1961 is also the year in which the great Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez took a Greyhound trip through the South and found the region to be akin to his own: I saw a world very similar to my home town of Aracataca in Colombia. As a company town built by United Fruit, Aracataca has the same wooden shacks with roofs made of zinc and

Estaba amaneciendo; veía una lucecita azul allá en el horizonte que iría creciendo y le mostraría el huerto de su casa en Pétionville, con sus árboles frutales, sus jacarandás y enredaderas. Pronto las gallinas comenzarían a cacarear y los perros a ladrar. Con el día y la luz el miedo disminuiría y él tendría que dominarlo del todo antes de ir a la