“IntroductionThis essay was not planned. It began as a list — eleven phrases writtenquickly, the kind of notes one makes for oneself rather than for others.What surprised me, looking at them together, was how coherent theyseemed: not a random accumulation but something that had been formingquietly over a long life, waiting to be named.I am a book publisher, a retired diplomat and lawyer, now a writer. I wasborn in Mexico, live in the US and have lived and worked across Europe,read widely and without system, and spent the better part of seven decades”
Jorge Pinto Books Inc.
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