bypassed or ignored the entire aspect of print as applied, as 
levelling, homogenizing. There is no intent or wish to set up any 
other standards. Castro writes (p. 620):

     They rebel against standards as such. There is a kind of 
     personal separatism. . . . If I had to locate, as it were, 
     that which is most characteristic of Hispanic life, I would 
     put it between the acceptance of inertia and the willful 
     outburst through which the person reveals what there 
     is—be it something insignificant or something of value—in 
     the depths of his soul, as if he were his own theatre. 
     Visible examples of this enormous contrast are the 
     peasant and the conquistador—insensibility to the 
     political and social situations and the insurrections and 
     convulsions of the blind mass of the people, destroying 
     everything; apathy toward the transformation of natural