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UNDER THE JAGUAR SUN

UNDER THE JAGUAR SUN

ITALO CALVINO

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Publisher:
LADYBIRD
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-75237-1
Pages:
112
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I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest ... The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun

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