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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