From: Javier
Aguilar <aguilart@san.rr.com>
I only believe in
what the gods have brought, or revealed to each and every one of us
in our own particular lives and how that ties in with the bigger scheme
of things. A long time ago and before I moved to Europe I lived, for
many years in the one and only New Orleans - first and last place for
the river. I imagine the image this way: a long and intricate complex
of arteries similar to the urine-urological water system we carry and
express in our bodies. The continent's urinating system seen from up
above. Thick, single and thrusting at the 'bottom'- at its delta, and
intricate, diverse and veiny at the top - at its blood manufacturing
geography. Physical and psychologically geographical. And my dilemmas
started in that old city by the ever-present river and that water paradox
seized me ever afterwards. I carry the pain and the riddle of Aphrodite's
terrible and sweet domain.