ALL DONE IN SPANISH FULL

ALL DONE IN SPANISH FULL

They’re all busy.” “It’s as bad as anything can be … all the theaters and nearly all the shops and restaurants are closed, and the streets have been full of funerals all day and ambulances all night.” “Two cherry flavored pills,” “orange juice and ice cream,” “coffee in a thermos bottle.” “The men are dying like flies out there …. “I tell you, they must come for her now or I’ll put her on the sidewalk.” “They can’t get an ambulance, and there aren’t any beds. These fragments involved the landlady her beloved fiancé Adam and fatal flu in Denver, Colorado, during World War I, which killed many young men needed for battle. “It took me a long time to go out and live in the world again.” Years later, in a thinly disguised autobiographical novel, she laid out not just her own traumatic run-in with death, the pale rider, but also a rare literary account of the 1918 flu pandemic in the United States and the unprecedented human loss.įor her recollection of the pandemic, Porter had to rely on fragments of memory before her illness and after her recovery. So that everything before that was just getting ready, and after that I was in some strange way altered, really,” said Katherine Anne Porter about her nearly fatal encounter with the Spanish flu. Egon Schiele (1890–1918) Self-Portrait with Physalis (1912) Oil and opaque color on wood (32.2 cm × 39.8 cm) Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria, “It simply divided my life, cut across it like that.

All done in spanish