"One had to wonder if Shimmy's stupidity wasn't something of an asset; watching him one wondered if in fact the passion to live and the strength to prevail might not be, at their core, quite stupid.
"They had absolutely no wisdom; wholly self-saturated, entirely self-oblivious, they had nothing to go on but the most elemental manhood, yet on that alone they came pretty damn far. They too had tragic experiences and suffered loses they were by no means too brutish to feel: being bludgeoned almost to death was as much their specialty as the bludgeoning. The point was that pain and suffering did not deter them for half an hour from their intention of living. Their lack of all nuance or doubt, of an ordinary mortal's sense of futility or despair, made it tempting sometimes to consider them inhuman, and yet they were men about whom it was impossible to say that they were anything other than human: they were what human really is. While his own father aspired relentlessly to embody the best in mankind, these Shimmys were simply the backbone of the human race."
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- J. J. Jimenez
- Gainesville, FL, United States
- Juliana Jiménez was born in Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia. She lived there for 13 years before moving to the U.S., on the 10 am flight on June 20th, 2000. Now she is a Journalism (and Frustrated English) Major and Chinese Minor; a Junior, and anxious about it. She speaks Spanish 89% of her time, English 9% and Chinese 2%. Spanish at home, on the phone, in between classes, in writing, in love. English for Academia and renewing car insurance. Chinese only for text-messages with her Colombian-American-Chinese-Swiss older sister and with her Colombian-American-French-Chinese boyfriend. She lived in Beijing, China for a total of 11 months before she was back-stabbed by the Chinese government.
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