Oh Mexico!. Love and Adventure in Mexico City

228 Pages·2011·1.57 MB·English

by  Lucy Neville

Lucy Neville was born in 1983 at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains west of
Sydney where she spent most of her childhood. She changed schools six times
and was a prefect at none of them, nor did she exhibit talent on the sporting field.
She finished her schooling in the inner city, and travelled to Central America in
her gap year. She did an Arts degree in Spanish and Politics at the University of
NSW then went to live in Mexico City. She is now completing a Masters degree
and lives at Bondi Beach, Australia.
OH
MEXICO!
Love and adventure in Mexico City
LUCY NEVILLE
First published in 2011
Copyright © Lucy Neville 2011
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Texcoco Netzahualcóyotl poem from J.M.G Le Clézio, The Mexican Dream: Or, the Interrupted Thought of
Amerindian Civilizations, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, reproduced with kind permission of The
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Quotations from The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz, translated with an introduction by J.M. Cohen
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CONTENTS
Prologue
1 To-do List
2 The Turquoise Serpent
3 The First Wives’ Breakfast Club
4 Almost a Revolution
5 Meeting the Strawberries
6 Sleeping with the Boss
7 Electric Shock with My Friends?
8 The Virgin
9 The Wedding
10 Parental Guidance
11 Death Tour
12 The Flower and the Song
13 Distilling Love
14 Herod’s Law
15 The Dark Virgin
16 Chocolate Skulls
17 Taking Off
Epilogue
Acknowledgements