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An Indian

An Indian An Indian preserved in his full physical presence In solid, in gas, and in liquid in atoms words soul color in gesture in smell in shadow in light in magnificent sound at a spot equidistant between the Atlantic and the Pacific From an object so resplendent the Indian will descend and the things that I know he will say I do not know how to say explicitly He will come more fearless even than Muhammed Ali He will come that I see passionately like Peri He will come that I see as tranquil and infallible as Bruce Lee He will come that I see with the energy of the afoxé of the Sons of Gandhi He will come And what is to be revealed at that moment to the people will surprise everyone not for being exotic but for its power to have always remained hidden when in fact it was obvious Translated by Andrew F. Jones and Eric Allina-Pisano * Peri is the romanticized indigenous Brazilian Indian hero of José Alencar’s 1857 novel O Guarani. †Afoxé is a carnival dance consecrated to the spirit of Oxum, a spirit or orixá in the pantheon of the Afro-Brazilian http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

An Indian

Veloso, Caetano
positions asia critique , Volume 11 (1) – Mar 1, 2003
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An Indian preserved in his full physical presence In solid, in gas, and in liquid in atoms words soul color in gesture in smell in shadow in light in magnificent sound at a spot equidistant between the Atlantic and the Pacific From an object so resplendent the Indian will descend and the things that I know he will say I do not know how to say explicitly He will come more fearless even than Muhammed Ali He will come that I see passionately like Peri He will come that I see as tranquil and infallible as Bruce Lee He will come that I see with the energy of the afoxé of the Sons of Gandhi He will come And what is to be revealed at that moment to the people will surprise everyone not for being exotic but for its power to have always remained hidden when in fact it was obvious Translated by Andrew F. Jones and Eric Allina-Pisano * Peri is the romanticized indigenous Brazilian Indian hero of José Alencar’s 1857 novel O Guarani. †Afoxé is a carnival dance consecrated to the spirit of Oxum, a spirit or orixá in the pantheon of the Afro-Brazilian

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