Before Gomez comes to his end -- which may actually be a beginning -- his novel will overflow with plots and stories echoing back and forth across the history and landscape of Mexico.
"Brown: The Last Discovery of America" continues in the method of the first two books, drawing together chapters that resemble essays but are more like the individual voices in a fugue, connected by motifs and melodies that echo back and forth in patterns, through this book and through the rest of Rodriguez's work.
In the video below, Şen demonstrates how vibrations from the strings are transmitted via coiled springs to the frame drums, echoing back and forth along the membranes.
In the Long Island house that the artist and illustrator Mats Gustafson shares with his partner, Ted Muehling, a jewelry designer, work, home and landscape are so intimately intertwined that visual echoes ricochet back and forth.
"We return to the lives of those who have gone before us," she writes, echoing the book's back-and-forth progress – "a perplexing Mobius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves".
The back-and-forth continues for weeks.
There is back-and-forth on this.
It's a back-and-forth conversation.
You don't have an echo, with sound bouncing back and forth".
Divine words resonating from one age to the next, reflecting from event after event, and echoing from interpretation to interpretation, tossed back and forth from sage to sage - and what, in the end, do we learn?
