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1992). See also the online version of El Universal, a Mexican newspaper,
and another online site dedicated to Mexican literary
culture, .
2. For a brief description of magical realism, see Zamora Faris, ed., Magical
Realism: Theory, History, Community (Durham: Duke UP, 1995).
3. Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico,
trans. Lysander Kemp (New York: Grove, 1961) 30, 36.
4. Paz 30.
5. Elena Garro, “It’s the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas,” trans. Patricia Wahl,
RIF/T: An Electronic Space for Poetry, Prose and Poetics, ed. Kenneth
Sherwood and Loss Pequeño Glazier, version 2.1, winter 1994, originally
accessed on 16 De cem ber 2002 .
6. This is the fi rst moment that Laura travels back in time to the sixteenth
century.
7. Here Laura returns to the present on the outskirts of Mexico City.
8. The zócalo is a roughly four-square block plaza at the center of Mexico
City. It was also the center of Tenochitlán.
9. Café Tacuba has been a café in the center of Mexico City since 1912. It
is famous for serving traditional Mexican dishes.
10. This is the second time Laura travels back in time to the sixteenth
century.
11. Here Laura returns to the twentieth century.
12. This is the third time Laura travels back to the sixteenth century.
13. This is a description of the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochitlán to
the Spaniards.
14. Here Laura returns to the present for the third time.
15. The beltways of Mexico City were built over the Aztec water canals.
16. In this sentence, the past and the present coexist, as there are no coyotes
in present-day Mexico City.
17. Nacha’s reference to the señor has changed, and she is referring here
to Laura’s indigenous cousin-husband, instead of to Pablo.