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[4] HE INTENDED TO PARADE THE LEG BEFORE CROWDS OF ONLOOKERS A DEAD LEG However, the loss of Santa Anna's limb proved the making of him politically. A plague hitsaremote village, leading to total memory-loss among its inhabitants... a baby with the tail of a pig is eaten alive by ants... an orphan knocks on a door, carrying a bag filled with her parents' jumbled bones. Perhaps the monopod Moore should instead have sought to fill the less physically challenging role of Márquez's first great dictator, General Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876), whose own peg-legged nature proved to be a genuine career asset, rather than leaving him the lame duck you might presume. According to Márquez's Nobel speech, Santa Anna, "three times dictator of Mexico, held a magnificent funeral for the right leg he had lost in the so-called "Pastry War".". [Extracted from the article] |
