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Before the wig and the dress coat there were rivers, arterial rivers: there were cordilleras, jagged waves where the condor and the snow seemed immutable: there was dampness and dense growth, the thunder as yet unnamed, the planetary pampas.
Man was dust, earthen vase, an eyelid of tremulous loam, the shape of clay- he was Carib jug, Chibcha stone, imperial cup of Araucanian silica.