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“This is very different from the touristic narrative that was being fashioned. That narrative is very celebratory, but it’s also almost utopian. The Inca are wonderful and great, but they’re remembered for their culture and their architecture, not so much for their politics or social legacies. In Neruda’s visit to Machu Picchu, he looked at the site as a sign of revolutionary indigenous power, and this was something that would be revisited from the Latin American left.” Read more...
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
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Paradise Lost
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The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
