The Heat En Sus Ojos is a dreamlike allegory of a story where the vital grounding of human nature (the "desert") is set against the detachment of a human construct (the "city"). Where the inventions of wealth and class fabricate an unnatural kind of "heat" in the human world: "not the rippling hot of an umbrella sun raining from the sky to toast you evenly, but the kind that starts on the ground and creeps up your feet then shoots up your legs and twists 'round your spine and weighs you down like an anchor 'til you sweat so much you get dragged down into the pavement and walk about like a big old concrete lump..."
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