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  • Mientras en Norteame  rica la colonizacio  n deposito   los ge  rmenes de un esp|ritu y una econom|a que se plasmaban entonces en Europa y a los cuales pertenec|a el porvenir, a la Ame  rica espan‹  ola trajo los efectos y los me  todos de un esp|ritu y una econom|a que declinaban ya y a los cuales no pertenec|a sino el pasado. Whereas in North America colonization planted the seeds of the spirit and economy then growing in Europe

    -Jose   Carlos Maria t egui
    French poet,  author of  Lais  and  Fables.  Born in Normandy,  she spent most of her life in England. Her Lais in particular  were of great influence on French literature.

  •    If the cardinal points of costume are Robes,Tato, Rig and Scunge, where are shorts in this compass? Theyare the never Robes as other bareleg outfits have been: the toga, the kilt, the lava-lava, the Mahatma's cotton dhoti; archbishops and field marshals at their ceremonies never wear shorts. The very word means underpants in North America.

    - Les(lie Allan) Murray
      Selected Poems,'The Dream of  Wearing Shorts Forever'.

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