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HOOKED ON COCALAND

 st. mj's guide to paradise for lost gringos

 
  Editors’ Note to Reader


part of a page of the Dr.'s first Colombian
                diary (yellow legal pad) with colorful Colombian Aguila
                Beer lable pasted to it 

part of a page of the Dr.’s first Colombian diary with a colorful Colombian beer bottle label pasted to it

 

translation:[1]

EAGLE BEER

A Colombian Industry
300 ml
  -  Beer Brewing of  (the City of)  Barranquilla  -  4% beer

Eagle Brewery, Inc.

‘DRINKING TOO MUCH IS HARMFUL TO HEALTH’

SALE TO MINORS PROHIBITED

 

 

Editors’ note to reader 

 

 

The notion that someone might break down the rambling journal from mj lorenzo’s first trip to Colombia into small pieces;

 

and then might edit the pieces and title them as chapters and subsections in a guide book;

 

a saint’s guide book, in fact;

 

for gringos;

 

who are lost;

 

trying to find paradise:

 

came from mj’s journal itself (as will be seen).

 

 

 

The idea was mj’s, but the execution was the editorial staff’s.

 

 

 

Accordingly, the Editor-in-Chief, Sammy Martinez, accepts responsibility for all titles:

 

for book title;

 

division titles;

 

and subsection titles,

 

except the title for subsection 1, which Dr. Lorenzo offered in his first day’s log (as will also be seen).

 

 the editors


[1]  Even during the cooler USA so-called (in English) ‘fall’ month of October it was so humid and steamy boiling every year at Colombia’s Caribbean coast that ice cold beer bottles sweated loose their labels in minutes, sticky gum and all. The falling-off labels acted like gummy moistened decals, so the 51-year-old Dr. came back home to the states like a high school kid from spring break, colorful beer bottle labels decaled to his books, papers and other items.

 

lanky Pedro the teenage
                  barber-fisherman ambling by the Rio Mojana in
                  Santisima Cruz 

a piece of paradise, Santisima Cruz on the Rio Mojana

in the ‘Department’ (meaning ‘State’) of Sucre

in the incomparable country of Colombia

(with Pedro the teenage barber-fisherman)


"everywhere, i said to Angel, there were soldiers holding automatic rifles waist high
ready to fire
and now there were two more at the main dock.  why?!

'There are guerrillas nearby and…' something, something.

'How close are they?' i asked.

'Ai! They're not close, the soldiers are just guarding the town'!"


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outline                  detailed table of contents

first page of diary          image index   1   2

glossary                  bibliography


what's happening with  Dr. Lorenzo now  (Dec. 2016)

the impact of  Jung's 'opposites'  on mj lorenzo

on the grave matter of what the Dr. calls  'mass psychosis'

about Sammy Martinez'  'Introduction'  to the present work

note from B. C. Duvall:  how to read  this kind of writing




Back pages feature April 2017:

An aging dry-brain yet still self-analyzing shrink
Dr. Lorenzo

tells a live educated audience including would-be post-postmodern writers

why he risked chasing away readers

by recently adding to this website's home page

-- not 1 -- not 2 but --

3 hokey Bible verses