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There Is No Creation Without Tradition; The 'new' Is An Inflection On A Preceding Form; Novelty Is Always A Variation On The Past.

At 50 I Find There Is A Long Line Of Characters And Shapes Demanding Words Just Outside My Window.

Most Writers In Mexico Have Had Posts As Ambassadors, Secretaries - That Is No Longer The Case. Now A Writer Can Live Off Writing. He Has An Audience: There Are Publishing Houses, There Are Newspapers - So The Situation Is Not As Terrible As It Used To Be When There Were No Means And He Had To Go Into Government Service, Be An Ambassador Or A Cabinet Minister, Etc. So, Things Are Changing In The Sense That The Civil Society Is Now The Protagonist. The Writer Therefore Occupies A Different Position, But No Less Influential Than In The Past, In A New, Democratic Society.

The United States Still Thinks That Mexico Is A Nineteenth Century Industrial Society. It Isn't That Any Longer, It Has To Adapt To A New Reality. But We Have A Grave Responsibility In Mexico, Which Is To Give Work To Our Own People. As Long As We Have A System That Denies Work To 50 Percent Of The Population, You'll Have Immigrants Coming To The United States.

The Great Wheel Of Fire Of Ancient Wisdom, Silence And Word Engendering The Myth Of The Origin, Human Action Engendering The Epic Voyage Toward The Other; Historical Violence Revealing The Tragic Flaw Of The Hero Who Must Then Return To The Land Of Origin; Myth Of Death And Renewal And Silence From Which New Words And Images Will Arise, Keeps On Turning In Spite Of The Blindness Of Purely Lineal Thought.