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Showing posts with label Elvis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elvis. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Bad Nature, or with Elvis in Mexico.



Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico - Javier Marias

Language is a dangerous commodity. How we use it can determine our fate. It is a vessel for memory. It can be used not just to decide what happens, but also what happened. So when it is decided that Elvis never went to Mexico to shoot some scenes from Fun in Acupulco, so it is. This however, threatens the very being of our narrator, for whom his time in Mexico with Elvis was a lifechanging experience.