kokomo - The Monday Morning Memo

“Gradually, on the train, the timeless places and old times took over. Villages full of one-armed fishermen who had held on to the dynamite too long, and of kids chasing soccer balls made of rags. ‘That’s where the world ended — a building of peeling wood, sloping tin roofs, and running balconies, and in front of it an arid little square,’ where, in 1928, the army had gunned down mythic numbers of striking banana workers on behalf of the United Fruit Company. When the gringos then left, ‘they took everything with them: money, December breezes, the bread knife, thunder at three in the afternoon, the scent of jasmines, love.'”

- Steve King, speaking of reminiscences recounted by Gabriel García Márquez in Living to Tell the Tale, March 6, 2012

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