![]() ![]() Yellow is discovered in a child's laughter, brown at the heart of the earth, blue when one god ascends to look down on the world and returns saying, ''I am carrying the color of the world in my eyes.'' Finally the gods paint the world from the top of a ceiba tree, flinging the colors so wildly that ''some colors splattered on the men and women, and that is why there are peoples of different colors and different ways of thinking. THE gods find colors in every way imaginable. Recommended By The Numbers: In this bonus episode of Recommended, producer Jenn Northington takes us through the numbers of the past five seasons. It seems that the world was once just black and white, with no colors at all except for ''the gray which painted the dusks and the dawns so that the black and the white didn't bump into each other so hard.'' Eventually the gods decided to create more colors to make the world ''more joyous for men and women - who were blind as bats - to take a walk or to make love.'' It relates a Chiapas folk tale told to Marcos by old Antonio, an Indian wise man, about how the macaw and the world came to have so many colors. ''The Story of Colors,'' which also features toucans and chickens, is another tale of macaws. ![]() The envelope contained a letter, the letter contained the story of the macaw who laid the egg and how she had fallen in love with a parrot and been banished by the other macaws, and the egg later hatched into a feathered tapir that Marcos adopted - but all that is another story. ''As I was taking out the feathers and droppings I found a little nest with a little gray egg, speckled with green and blue, and beside it a little envelope.'' The classic debut collection from Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPherson Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America’s most venerated and most original writers. Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPherson, one of Americas most venerated, most original writers. When Marcos opened the back of the radio, he wrote, he discovered the problem: a bunch of parrots and macaws flew out, screaming with joy at regaining their freedom. Indeed, a letter from June of that year, written a few months before ''The Story of Colors,'' described a march through the mountains of southern Mexico and a short-wave radio out of which came only birdsong. There is something else that all readers, young and old, ought to know about the author of ''The Story of Colors,'' and that is that Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos is, in addition to being a fine writer, a great bird lover.Įxotic, brightly plumed birds of every type appear in the many communiques the author, said to be a former graphics professor, has issued since he appeared on the world stage in 1994 as leader of the Zapatista National Liberation Army. The National Endowment for the Arts gave the publisher of this book a $7,500 grant for its translation and publication, then withdrew the grant in March when the endowment's chairman learned that the author was the leader of the Zapatista rebels in southern Mexico.īut wait. ![]()
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