The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Mine

Quotes from "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

"Blount was not a freak, although when you first saw him he gave you that impression. It was like something was deformed about him--but when you looked at him closely each part of him was normal and as it ought to be. Therefore if this difference was not in the body it was probably in the mind. He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person who had been somewhere that other people are not likely to go or had done something that others are not apt to do." (21)

Quotes from The Mine by A. Lopez Salinas poorly translated by myself

"And before Kings ruled, and now there are almost no more kings besides the four on a deck of cards. And they said that the world was flat, and it was found to be round and that it orbited around the sun. Each thing is true in its time. There is no greater truth then this: man has made all and has changed all." (150)


"She thought of the time that had passed from when she had married the miner. There were lagoons in her remembrance, spaces of gray life in which nothing good or bad had passed...

She looked at him with a friendly look, with affection. She remembered the man that she met 26--or was it 27--years ago. But more than the man, she remembered her youth, the youth of the mine field women. The youth lost between hunger and suffering and work. Scarcely with the happiness of an irremediably short Sunday, a cheap dress, of a cheek-to-cheek dance with the young boys. And of hope, of much hope. There were 27 years already. She looked at him again as the good companion of the happy hours and the bitter hours. The companion for whom she anxiously waited every day, always scared of an evil angel lying in wait to inflict tragedy on all of the miners.
Truthfully she would like to be young again and offer her white body to her old companion. (176)"