“One of the things that really gets me about people is their inability to sustain a feeling, an idea, without falling apart. Elena turned out to be totally inconsistent. It is pure alienation [deterioration] as Ortega [y Gasset] would say. She doesn’t relate one thing to another. That’s one of the signs of underdevelopment: the inability to connect things, to accumulate experience and to develop. It is difficult to produce here a woman shaped by sentiments and culture. It’s a soft environment. Cubans waste their talents adapting themselves to every moment. The people aren’t consistent. And they always need somebody to do their thinking for them.”
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