This quotation from chapter 11 is Antonio's description of his first sighting of the golden carp. ... The quotation is important because it represents Antonio's most significant confrontation with a non-Christian faith. Stylistically, it is also an important example of how Anaya adapts his prose style to the emotional and psychological contexts of his characters situations. ...

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It all begins with a quotation from Goethe: "He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." ... Other important figures presented are Descartes ("he wanted to clear all the rubble off the site"), Spinoza ("God is not a puppeteer"), Locke, Hume, Berkeley ("we exist only in the mind of God"), Berkeley, Kant ("the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me"), Hegel, Kierkegaard ("it's one thing to collect Barbie dolls, but worse to be one"), Marx, Darwin and Freud. ...

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