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C茅sar Aira
“Were the 鈥減ampas,鈥� perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane?”
C茅sar Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

William Henry Hudson
“One extraordinary feature of the private quintas or orchards and plantations in the vicinity of the Saladeros was the walls or hedges. These were built entirely of cows' skulls, seven, eight, or nine deep, placed evenly like stones, the horns projecting. Hundreds of thousands of skulls had been thus used, and some of the old, very long walls, crowned with green grass and with creepers and wild flowers growing from the cavities in the bones, had a strangely picturesque but somewhat uncanny appearance.”
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life

Gabriela Cabez贸n C谩mara
“Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parec铆a la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volv铆an a su posici贸n inicial, era verde y fulguraban los distintos tonos de los pastos, que parec铆an brotes tiernos aunque ya casi nada brotaba. M谩s bien volv铆a todo a la tierra haci茅ndose marr贸n, iba del verde claro, el amarillo, el oro y el ocre a la ca铆da. Otra vez respir谩bamos, como si hubi茅ramos salido de una cueva, como si el aire de la estancia hubiera sido turbio, pesado [...].”
Gabriela Cabez贸n C谩mara, Las aventuras de la China Iron
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