Chasing Che by Patrick Symmes

Author:Patrick Symmes [Symmes, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-80121-0
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

Obviously, this was not Cuban Comandante Che Guevara writing, but an uncommitted observer, inspired more by basic hopes of justice and dignity—bread for the poor—than by specific plans for realizing them. The benefits or costs of communism had not been calculated yet. Ernesto was still not Che.

They watched the sun rise over the desert, one of those moments when the earth seems revealed for the first time and all life is compressed into a transient instant. The spectacle moved Ernesto to quietly recite several Pablo Neruda poems that he had memorized.

Alberto countered by reciting the only Neruda poem he knew, one that the poet, a dedicated communist, had written during the dark days of World War II when his usual subjects, love and nature, seemed too frivolous:

I wrote of the weather and about the water

I described sorrow and its purple metal

I wrote of the sky and the apple

now I write about Stalingrad

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