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	lonely plural--the albino town

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10-24-2007 3:51 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/278673d0-1394-4da7-a903-bf47db24c4a2/5E70CAB9-DB7F-46A1-8463-D272C746D746/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/fall/daneri-aicuna-albino/" href="http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/fall/daneri-aicuna-albino/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.vqronline.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/fall/daneri-aicuna-albino/"><P>“One day a photographer came who wanted to take our picture,” Lucio Ormeño, one of the three albinos living in Aicuña, will tell me a few days from now.</p> <P>When he speaks, Lucio Ormeño never refers to himself in the first-person singular. Instead he prefers to use <EM>we </EM>to talk about himself, even for such simple matters as <EM>we </EM>woke up or <EM>we </EM>had a business or <EM>we</EM> bought a motorcycle. It is a strange way of speaking, which is in no way a shared trait among the residents of Aicuña. It is he, and only he. It’s as if excessive modesty—or excessive <EM>something</EM>—has hindered him from expressing his individuality, even as the world regards him as so singular.</p> <P>“We paid him no mind,” Lucio Ormeño will continue, in his lonely plural. “He asked us questions, he pleaded, he begged. He was desperate, but he went back to where he had come from without a single photo. We wouldn’t even pose for his camera when he offered us money.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5E70CAB9-DB7F-46A1-8463-D272C746D746/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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