Alternating Current

Alternating Current is a wide-ranging and occasionally interesting collection of essays on literature (Lowry, Lawrence, Breton, Carlos Fuentes, and others), politics, and (in Paz's best section) religion and Western-versus-Eastern philosophy. “If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.”