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

John P. Dyson dyson at indiana.edu
Mon May 29 07:13:38 PDT 2006


Quoting Graeme Rymill <grymill at library.uwa.edu.au>:

> This passage, minus the "Life is plurality, death is uniformity"
> sentence is quoted in:
>
> Communicative Turbulence in Urban Dynamics-Media, Education, and
> Planning
> By George Fox Mott
> Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol.
> 405, Urban Change and the Planning Syndrome. (Jan., 1973), pp. 114-130.
>
> Mott gives the source in a footnote on page 121.
>
> "Octavio Paz, in an interview by Rita Guibert, in Intellectual Digest
> (December 1972, p.74. The statement is an abridgement from her book,
> Seven voices (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, forthcoming)."


SEVEN VOICES also appeared as SIETE VOCES in Mexico in 1972. It is 
likely the source of the Spanish versions of the quote being sought.

John Dyson
Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University



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