Elsa
Cajiao
(Colombian
writer)
Power is power,
whether it is exercised legally or seized;
be it in the Russia of the tsars,
the Egypt of the Pharaohs,
the Germany of the Kaisers,
or among the bushmen;
be it that of a head of a family
or that which is exercised
by Eréndira’s grandmother
over her miserable court,
in her equally miserable kingdom.
The Theme of Power
in Innocent Eréndira - 2001.