Sunday, May 27, 2012

SOLEDAD

Hac. San Pedro, Puebla (04)

“There is an indescribable feeling of solitude in all the houses in the environs of Mexico, a vastness, a desolation  such as I never before experienced in the most lonely dwellings in other countries.  It is not sad -- the sky is too bright and nature too smiling, and the air we inhale to pure for that.  It is a sensation of being entirely out of the world, and alone with a giant nature surrounded by faint traditions of a bygone race....."   --- (Travels in Mexico, (1837) Fanny Calderon de la Barca)