just for the fun of it, we have this post: something along the lines of there being "one person left after an earthquake to tell of it." it came from a short story la noche de ramon yendia by lino novas calvo. seemingly intersting to consider the use of a natural disaster to describe events of great trauma in latin america. return during a moment or two, for instance, to the use of the earthquake by mario benedetti in a previous post in the parallel blog.