Theopoetics: that the dead may become gardeners again.

From: CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Running through the work of Brazilian theologian Rubem Alves is a story from Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a fishing village where, over generations, life has degenerated into routine, sameness, bored day after bored day. (1) Day in and day out, the same tasks (mending nets, fixing huts, gathering fruits), the same routine hopes and desires. Conversations have degenerated into routines; people barely hear each other; faces have a range of expected expressions and rarely detour from them. Each goes about his or her own daily life with a predictable dreamless sameness.

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