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Myth of Pterygium
Diego Gerard Morrison
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The story of a failed poet struggling with vision loss, personal crises, and what it means to be an arms dealer in a quasi-dystopian Mexico City.
This debut novel is set in a vaguely dystopian, yet also realistic, Mexico City—endless traffic jams, relentless clouds of pollution, economic hardships, and the ever-present threat of drug cartels. The unnamed narrator of the novel, at times referred to as Arthur—in part because of the growing similarity of his life with Arthur Rimbaud's—struggles with the dissonance of leading an artistic life while providing for his family. A failed, penniless poet with a child on the way, he is forced to take a job in his family's weapons dealing enterprise, which he soon discovers is connected to the corrupt Mexican armed forces and drug cartels, who are responsible for the increasing death toll in the country. All the while, the narrator struggles with a growing condition in his right eye, a pterygium, that is slowly taking over his vision, blurring the events of his life, including his wife's complicated pregnancy, extortions by the drug cartels, and his own relationship to his writing. As the narrator gradually finds his life spiraling out of control, the novel moves quickly to a startling conclusion.
Myth of Pterygium is the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Fiction, selected by Maryse Meijer.
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"Morrison's enigmatic and sweet-humored debut is a thing all of its own. It's a poignant account of how family, self, and love come together, drift apart, and somehow—gently, miraculously—reform. It's a satire on the logic of artistic production against a background of elaborate brunches, crime of baroque violence, and no-longer-just-impending ecological collapse. It's a purgatorial evocation of a city that's forever pulling itself apart and trying to begin again, all relayed in a form and style whose reckoning with the physical will leave you looking up from the page with the world around you freshened and suddenly, newly relentless. Rich, strange, and brilliant, you won't read anything else like Myth of Pterygium."
Tim MacGabhann, author of How to Be Nowhere
"Like all the best myths, Morrison's surrealist mirror throws our own world into such sharp focus it practically draws blood. Simultaneously hallucinatory and utterly clear-eyed, Myth of Pterygium whirls the reader through a near-future-on-fire via the inimitable perspective of a broke poet and father-to-be as he tries to build a future for himself and his family in a city falling apart at the seams. . . . Mixing philosophy, slapstick adventure, and meditations on the writing life with encounters with tarot-card-reading matriarchs of firearm empires, Myth employs the high and the low and everything in between in a narrative that is remarkable for its seamless, and seemingly effortless, blend of genres and tones. But even greater than its formal inventiveness is the novel's generosity of spirit; in the midst of Myth's grief and uncertainty is the sense that we must live and to love not in spite of, but because of, existential threats on the personal and global scale. A gently terrifying, funny, and almost unbearably moving feat from an extraordinary imagination."
Maryse Meijer, author of The Seventh Mansion


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A Laja-vízesések (spanyolul: Saltos de(l) Laja) Chile nevezetes turisztikai látványosságai közé tartoznak.

Története
Körülbelül 13 000 évvel ezelőtt, az utolsó jégkorszak során izzó vulkáni hamu árasztotta el a térséget, amely megszilárdulva több méter vastag, kemény réteget képzett a felszínen. Később ennek a rétegnek egy része a fentről érkező folyóvíz hatására lassan lepusztult, letöredezett, a megmaradt szélén pedig látványos vízesések alakultak ki.

Az 1600-as években Pedro de Valdivia konkvisztádor fedezte fel a térséget, ahova ezután lassan kezdtek betelepülni az európaiak, akik azonban ellenséges viszonyba kerültek a környező területek indián népével, ezért különféle erődök építésére kényszerültek. 1756. december 13-án a Laja-vízesések közelében került sor egy nagy jelentőségű gyűlésre, amelyen spanyolok és spanyol származásúak, valamint araukánok és pevencsék vettek részt, és ahol egy viszonylag hosszú ideig tartó békét kötöttek egymással.

A vízesések 1930-ban már az ország legismertebb turisztikai célpontjának számítottak, igaz, ekkor még megfelelő utak hiányában igen nehezen, csak vasúton és gyalog voltak megközelíthetők.

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A négy vízesésből álló rendszer Chile középső részén, Biobío régió területén található, a Laja nevű folyón. Ez a folyó az Andokban ered, és nyugatra, a Csendes-óceánba tart: a vízesések nagyjából folyásának felénél találhatók. Közelében, néhány száz méterre halad el az 5-ös számú főút: erről az útról a legnagyobb, 35 méter magas vízesés látható is. A fő vízesés mellett helyezkedik el egy kisebb, 25 méter magas, míg nagyjából egy kilométerrel hátrébb található a szintén nagyjából 25 méteres Salto Chico ("kis vízesés"), végül ennél is keletebbre egy negyedik, 20 méteres vízesés van.

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A vízeséseket igen sokan látogatják, mivel könnyen megközelíthetők, a helyszínre pedig ingyenes a belépés. A vízesések mellett számos különböző típusú szálláshelyet építettek ki a kempingtől egészen a szállodákig, és éttermek is várják a látogatókat. Gyalogos és lovas túrázás mellett fürdésre és csónakázásra, valamint canopyzásra is lehetőség van. A fő vízesésnél található híd északi és déli végénél is olyan üzletek működnek, ahol a környék kézművesei árulják a portékáikat: ezek legjellemzőbben faragott és esztergált fatárgyak, szőttesek és ötvösmunkák.

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One of the tragedies of this day is that so much importance is placed on the ideas of very mediocre people, especially when they write books about "God" or "The Return of God" or how they re-discovered "God".
Has Peter really re-discovered Real God?
Or has he returned to the consoling mommy-daddy santa claus good-luck "god" of his child-hood?
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Plus look at the company he keeps altogether. Not a trace of a Spiritually informed religious consciousness to be found amongst any of his right-thinking associates.


The modern City of Bareilly was founded by Mukrand Rai in 1657. Later it became the capital of the Rohilkhand region before getting handed over to Nawab Vazir of Awadh and then to the East India Company, becoming an integral part of India.
Historically, the region was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Panchala. The Panchalas occupied the country to the east of the Kurus, between the upper Himalayas and the river Ganges. The country was divided into Uttara-Panchala and Dakshina-Panchala. The northern Panchala had its capital at Ahichatra, (also known as Adhichhatra and Chhatravati, near present-day Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla] tehsil of Bareilly district, while southern Panchala had it capital at Kampilya or Kampil in Farrukhabad district. The famous city of Kanyakubja or Kannauj was situated in the kingdom of Panchala.


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Morsi a polarising figure in Egypt's referendum
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CAIRO, Dec 15, 2012 (AFP)
Voting in Egypt's referendum on a new constitution may have started calmly on Saturday, but there was no mistaking the highly charged atmosphere that has polarised citizens for weeks.
Hostility and fear of the Islamist line espoused by President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood were major reasons many voters gave for casting "no" ballots, rather than the text of the draft charter itself.
"I'm voting because I hate the Muslim Brotherhood. They're liars," said Abbas Abdel Aziz, a 57-year-old accountant, lining up at a polling station in Cairo's central Sayyeda Zeinab district.
"I voted for Morsi and it was a big mistake. This constitution fails to forbid children from working and paves the way for underage marriage," Ali Mohammed Ali, 65 and unemployed, said.
Nearby, police and soldiers guarded the front gate of the school acting as a polling station, on the lookout for any of the violence that since last month has marked protests for and against Morsi and the proposed constitution.
But in the same queue to vote there were others who backed the new charter, on what they saw as its merits.
"I have read the constitution to see if what the opposition say is true, and it's not. It's a good constitution," said Enayat Sayyed Mustafa, a retired woman.
In a women-only polling station in the capital's Shubra neighbourhood, where a large Coptic Christian community lives, a somewhat chaotic situation reigned, with women unsure of in which classroom they were supposed to cast their ballots.
Illiterate voters had to be asked out loud by organisers whether they wanted to vote "yes" or "no" to the constitution, an AFP photographer there said.
Here, too, the divisions were evident.
Sally Rafid, a 28-year-old Christian casting her ballot, said: "There are many things in the constitution people don't agree on, and it's not just the articles on religion. I'm voting against it."
A veiled Muslim woman in her 30s, carrying an infant son who gave only her last name, Sabbah, disagreed.
"The constitution is excellent," she said, "and with it freedom is improving. And there are articles that deal with religion and Islamic law, which the previous constitution didn't address properly."
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