Sport 39: 2011
THE WALL OF SERPENTS
THE WALL OF SERPENTS
It’s a bit like that story by Italo Calvino, the ‘Serpents and Skulls’ one, where Mr Palomar and a friend are visiting the ruins of Tula, once capital of the Toltecs. The friend knows a great deal, or believes he does, about the ruins they walk among. He confidently explains and interprets everything—while occasionally they cross paths with a schoolteacher, leading his crocodile of children, who points to each column or statue or piece of carved stone and says, ‘We do not know what it means.’