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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040613
Author:Reviewed by Carlos M.N. Eire

THE SECOND DEATH OF <_>NICA AVEYANO

By Ernesto Mestre-Reed

Vintage. 259 pp. Paperback, $13

As Saint Augustine pointed out in The Confessions, humans spend their lives constantly poised between the past and the future, riding the evanescent wave of the present, the crest of which is at once utterly real and unreal, for there is never any point that can be really claimed as "now" -- for as soon as one utters the word, the moment has passed. Since the present is as elusive as a flowing river, memory is at the core of our being, and remembering is our identity.

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