![]() ![]() ![]() He leaves us with this brilliant last paragraph – “Tomorrow, on his first day of vacation, the pope will lean out the window of his summer palace to contemplate the blue surface of Castel Gandolfo’s beautiful lake. He weaves in the magic in the last part, when he juxtaposes the annual visit, and its almost one-month delay, with the news of the decapitated body of a woman appearing on the shores of Lake Albano in Castel Gandolfo. In the initial parts of the piece, he writes in detail about the drive and the quiet entry to Castel Gandolfo. It is an annual affair, wherein the Pope heads out from his Holy office to the Castel Gandolfo Palace, located twenty miles from Rome. ‘The Scandal of the Century and other writings’, a collection of some of his journalistic writings from the 1950s to early 80s, have quite a few of these.įor instance, the piece written in 1955 for ‘El Espectador’ on the then Pope going on vacation. But in the hands of Marquez, even these can be turned into magical prose, making connections to seemingly unconnected events, to bring out some unique perspective. In journalism, the routine affairs are the most boring ones to cover, especially the annual ritual-like ones. ![]()
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