Marisol and Other Plays

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On page v: Italo Calvino’s quote is from If on a winter’s night a traveler, English translation © 1981; translated by William Weaver; published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Orlando, Florida. On page 70: Federico García Lorca’s quote is from the poem “Landscape of a Pissing Multitude (Battery Place Nocturne)” in Poet in New York © 1988; edited by Christopher Maurer, translated by Greg Simon and Steven F. White; published by the Noonday Press, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City. On page 133: Pablo Neruda’s quote is from the poem “Juegas Todos Los Días . . .” in Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) © 1970, edited by Nathaniel Tarn, translated by Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid and Nathaniel Tarn; published by Penguin Books, New York City. Julian Barnes’s quote is from A History of the World in 10½ Chapters © 1989; published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York City; Mavis Gallant’s quote is cited from the same source. Stephen W. Hawking’s quote is from A Brief History of Time © 1988, published by Bantam, New York City. Danny Daniel’s quote is from the song “Por El Amor De Una Mujer” by Los Panchos.

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