Saturday, November 06, 2021
The Place of Truth
Gerald Brenan (1894-1987), South from Granada (1957; rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p. 112:
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The cemetery was known as the tierra de la verdad or place of truth. When only the other day I questioned my housekeeper about this, she replied with great feeling: 'Why, that's the only truth there is. One is buried and that's the end. All our life is an illusion.' Rosario is a cheerful and pagan-minded woman with few cares in the world, yet, when asked, she gave the eternal Spanish answer: 'Life is an illusion, because it ends.'
