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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).
On the other hand, JQA struggled to stake out his own terrain as a lawyer or, his ultimate fantasy, a poet.
In some sense that I struggled to understand but eventually gave up on, another famous piece, "Travels in Georgia," was apparently shaped like a lower case e.
But Rose struggled, pouted mightily, feuded with coaches, and generally demoralized himself and the players around him.
In the past couple of years, though, Levi's has struggled.