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"Journey Back to the Source" follows the life of Marcial in reverse chronological order. The beginning and end of the story are very similar and depict the deconstruction of the house in which he lived his life. This reversion suggests that the 'journey back to the source' is the natural world. This is a stark contrast from the kinds of beliefs he forms as young adult as he is influenced by the culture and religious beliefs that surround him. He is haunted by images of Saint Denis who, according to legend, was beheaded and continued to journey on foot until he eventually died a martyr and later became patron saint of France. By including this strange encounter, Carpentier successfully portrays the complex relationship everyone has with facing their own death, how supernatural we make it seem when in reality it is very natural.

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Now he was undergoing a spiritual crisis, peopled by religious images, paschal lambs, china doves, Virgins in heavenly blue cloaks, gold paper stars, the three Magi, angels with wings like swans, the Ass, the Ox, and a terrible Saint Denis, who appeared to him in his dreams with a great space between his shoulders, walking hesitantly as if looking for something he had lost.

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"Journey Back to the Source" by Alejo Carpentier

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"Journey Back to the Source" by Alejo Carpentier

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Our married life was fine. We loved each other and everyone left us alone. People found it hard at first to get used to the Ice Man, but after a while they started to talk with him. An Ice Man's not so different from anybody else, they concluded. But deep down,I knew they didn't accept me for having married him. We're different people from them, they concluded, and the gulf separating them and us will never be filled.

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I'm completely alone, in the coldest, loneliest place in the world. What I cry, my husband kisses my cheeks, turning my tears to ice.

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In "The Ice Man" by Haruki Murakami, the narrator is fascinated by a man so cold he is covered in frost and ice. His physical appearance distinguishes him from others and it becomes obvious throughout the story that their relationship is unconventional and strange in the  eyes of others. Perhaps Murakami include this to comment on how personal relationships are affected by normative assertions of what a relationship between two people should look like.

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The Ice Man in Murakami's short story is an anomaly as far as physical appearance goes. His name is never revealed in this story and his entire identity is instead indicative to his physical features that set him apart from everyone else. In this sense, his physical state is emphasized throughout the story in order to reflect his inner piercing coldness and isolation, how the inside effects the outside and how it consequently rubs off on other people.

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Into the night
I cry out
I cry out your name.
Into the night
I search out
I search out your love.
Night so dark
Where are you?
Come back in my heart
So dark
So dark.