[PW] Re: can u help find citation for Octavio Paz quote?

[John P. Dyson]

Try searching on Jaime Nualart, who was the presiding officer when, on
October 20, 2005, UNESCO approved a universal declaration on cultural
diversity. At least one site states that in his remarks Nualart
paraphrased Octavio Paz. I don't recognize a particular text by Paz 
that corresponds to the content of those remarks, but you might ask 
Señor Nualart directly: he is Coordinador de Asuntos Internacionales at 
the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. The e-mail address of 
CONACULTA is dominiointernet at correo.conaculta.gob.mx.

John Dyson
Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University



Quoting Andrew Reding <areding at worldpolicy.org>:

> This quotation attributed to Octavio Paz appears widely on the Internet,
> but never with a verifiable citation:
>
> What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their
> attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By
> suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different
> civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The
> ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of
> progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the
> world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a
> possibility of life.
>
> Some websites say it is from The Labyrinth of Solitude, but I have read
> carefully through that book and am quite sure it is NOT there.
>
> I have also found a Spanish-language version, but it is similar in never
> having a verifiable citation:
>
> Lo que mueve a los mundos
> es la interacción de las diferencias,
> sus atracciones y rechazos.
> La vida es pluralidad.
> La muerte es uniformidad.
> Al reprimir diferencias y peculiaridades,
> al eliminar diferentes culturas y civilizaciones
> el progreso debilita la vida y fortalece la muerte,
> nos empobrece y mutila.
> Cada visión del mundo que se extingue,
> cada cultura que desaparece
> disminuye la posibilidad de vida.
>
> Can anyone help find a VERIFIABLE citation in either English or Spanish?
>
> On a Google search, I recently found a link for a STUMPERS page that
> apparently had a response, but that page has disappeared, and the STUMPERS
> archive is no longer online.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Reding
>
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