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“I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.”
― History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago
― History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago
“Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don’t sit down, sahib? It ain’t dirty. Is just how it does look.’
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
“You ain’t old yet but when you get old, all the women in the village start to look down on you when they find out you want to do something other than sweep the kitchen or cut up vegetables. Had this big starch mango tree when I was small. Anytime I set myself to climb it, there was always a woman passing by to yell at me and tell me to get down. Asked me why I leaving my poor mother to do all the housework. I never got to the top. It was like God was always watching, ready to send another hag to tell me down. Then, one day, they cut down the tree.”
― Rune Mathura and the Case of the Village Jumbie
― Rune Mathura and the Case of the Village Jumbie
“Y así es como empezó la teología. La gente ya sabía de la existencia de Dios de una manera vaga. Entonces llegó un hombre que afirmó ser Dios y que no era, sin embargo, la clase de hombre que se podía tachar de lunático. Ese hombre hizo que le creyesen. Volvieron a encontrarlo después de que lo hubieran matado. Y luego, después de que habían sido formados en una pequeña sociedad o comunidad, encontraron de alguna manera a Dios también dentro de ellos: dirigiéndolos, haciéndolos capaces de hacer cosas que no habían podido hacer hasta entonces. Y cuando lo dilucidaron todo, encontraron que habían llegado a la definición cristiana del Dios tripersonal. Esta definición no es algo que hayamos inventado. La teología es, en un sentido, conocimiento experimental. Son las religiones sencillas las que deben inventarse.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“En la dimensión de Dios, por así decirlo, encontramos un ser que es tres Personas!' mientras sigue siendo un Ser, del mismo modo que un cubo é» seis cuadrados mientras sigue siendo un cubo. Por supuesto, nosotros no podemos concebir del todo a un Ser así, del mismo modo que, si estuviéramos hechos de manera tal que sólo percibiéramos dos dimensiones en el espacio nunca podríamos imaginar adecuadamente un cubo. Pero podemos tener una ligera noción del mismo. Y cuando lo hacemos tenemos, por primera vez en la vida, una idea positiva, por ligera que sea, de algo superpersonal, de algo que es más que una persona.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Un cristiano corriente se arrodilla para hacer sus oraciones. Está intentando ponerse en contacto con Dios. Pero si es cristiano sabe que lo que le está instando a orar también es Dios: Dios, por así decirlo, dentro de él. Pero también sabe que todo su conocimiento real de Dios le viene a través de Cristo, el Hombre que es Dios…, que Cristo está de pie a su lado, ayudándole a orar, orando con él. ¿Veis lo que está ocurriendo? Dios es aquello a lo cual él está orando, la meta que está intentando alcanzar. Dios es también lo que dentro de él le empuja, la fuerza de su motivación. Dios es también el camino o puente a lo largo del cual está siendo empujado hacia esa meta! De manera que la triple vida del Ser tripersonal está de hecho teniendo lugar en ese dormitorio corriente en el que un hombre corriente está diciendo sus oraciones. Ese hombre está siendo captado por la clase de vida más alta, lo que yo llamo Zoe o vida espiritual: está siendo atraído hacia Dios, por Dios, mientras que sigue siendo el mismo.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“I say, ‘Man, you best behave youself this time, cause we ain’t never getting this mattress out from in here.’ … Berry say, ‘Don’t you worry about that. Cause I’s a married man now, I got to behave. My name done write.’ He say, ‘Why I going in some other bed when I got this big foam bed to lie in?’ I say, ‘It ain’t the bed it’s who does hot the sheets.’ He say, ‘Well best bring them sheets let we hot them up right now.”
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
“I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know.”
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
“The water off the northern coast of South America is typically choppy and is known to have relatively long wavelengths that are developed by a constant easterly wind. The Guiana Current is a result of this phenomenon and is strongest in April and May. Even at its minimum in September, it is relatively strong and persistent. Hydrographic studies show that the Amazon is sporadically responsible for lobes of relatively low salinity, which follow the current northwest and contribute to the Caribbean having less salinity than the Atlantic. As we got closer to the South American coast, we started feeling the effects of this current and prepared to batten everything down.”
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“A man was asleep in his open hut, when a huge snake bit him and swallowed his foot. The idea of this happening is enough to drive chills up any person’s spine. The snake then proceeded to chomp its way up the man’s leg, until it couldn’t go any farther. The man’s yelling and screaming brought people running to the rescue. Men with machetes hacked away at the thrashing monster, until the snake finally released its hold. Local legend has it that the man survived but lost his mind in the ordeal and hasn’t been sane since. Trinidad does have huge snakes including Pythons and South American Anacondas. The island, known for its snakes, has the greatest diversity of these reptiles in the Caribbean.”
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“The news about Eddoes and the shoes travelled round the street pretty quickly. My mother was annoyed. She said, ‘You see what sort of thing life is. Here I is, working my finger to the bone. Nobody flinging me a pair of shoes just like that, you know. And there you got that thin-arse little man, doing next to nothing, and look at all the things he does get.”
― Miguel Street
― Miguel Street
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