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By Jack Joseph Smith

Latin American writers have had to invent very little; infact their problem is quite the opposite, in making their reality credible GARCIA MARQUEZ UNLESS the disciple has the power to roar LIKE A LION Against his own guru he has not the possibility of Learning ANY thing Hindu MAN has four stages, work, family, preperation, And Leaving SANYASAN

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This page gathers aphoristic notes about imagination, discipline, and renunciation, linking literary authority to spiritual rigor.

The page is less a poem than a compact notebook of convictions. Garcia Marquez appears beside a sharp statement about the disciple's need to oppose the guru, and that tension between inheritance and refusal carries into the closing note on the stages of life. It reads like a page of foundations: what art demands, what learning costs, and what kind of leaving might complete a life.

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Three borrowed convictions copied out by hand. Garcia Marquez argues Latin American writers 'have had to invent very little,' their real problem 'making their reality credible.' A second maxim insists the disciple must 'roar LIKE A LION Against his own guru' or learn nothing. The last lists the four Hindu stages, 'work, family, preperation, And Leaving,' signed 'SANYASAN.' The page is a small creed: art as credible reality, learning as defiance, and life as a staged renunciation.