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...wrapped in mystery wrapped in a tortilla, the work is beautifully lucid. Castaneda's story unfolds with a narrative power unmatched in other anthropological studies. Its terrain?studded with organ-pipe cacti, from the glittering lava massifs of the Mexican desert to the ramshackle interior of Don Juan's shack???becomes perfectly real. In detail, it is as thoroughly articulated a world as, say, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. In all the books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves at twilight, the hunter's peculiar alertness...
...Barnett, a Creek Indian. He could neither read nor write, but he easily satisfied his humble needs by laboring occasionally for 50c a day. In 1898 the U. S. Government allotted to him 160 acres of land. That was good, he thought?a place all his own for his shack???plenty of space for roaming?maybe there was a little easy money in the land, in spite of its rocks and sterile soil...