“Not many people today see disease as the wrath of a god or goddess, who demands appeasement, or as the work of a demon who has to be destroyed. But still these stories persist. It reveals our faith in how disease has traditionally been seen: not the presence of something unnatural, but as the imbalance of nature’s forces.” Devdutt Pattanaik writes about the fever gods.

“…laughter is the universal mode of dissent, and a much better orientation for action than the pessimism of the ‘paradigm of disillusion’. The former is like air and lighthouses.” And so is the hard work of García Márquez, humble producer, writes Oliver Guardiola-Rivera.