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While other writers struggled with Paz's definition of the Mexican condition, he wrote about Chinese calligraphy, Japanese haiku, the Marquis de Sade ("an enemy of love," yet paradoxically, a generous man), or obstacles to democracy in India (he always thought there were useful parallels between Mexico's and India's struggles to set up a legitimate government).
These beautiful wooden boxes come from the royal graves at Mawangdui, as does the museum’s show-stopper: the remarkably well-preserved silk-wrapped mummy of the Marquis of Dai’s wife, Tohou, who died at age 50 in 186 b.c.
See AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001; NTSB report, "Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 11," Feb. 19, 2002.
But Americans adhere to the Marquis of Queensbury rules.
AAL transcript, telephone call from Betty Ong to Nydia Gonzalez, Sept. 11, 2001; AAL transcript, telephone call from Nydia Gonzalez to Craig Marquis, Sept. 11, 2001.