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16This scene is reminiscent of the one in Los de abajo where Demetrio Macias, amused and puzzled by Luis Cervantes' ingratiating reference to their cause, asks, -iPos cual causa defendemos nosotros? Mariano Azuela, Los de abajo, 3a ed. (Mexico: Ediciones Botas, 1949), p. 35. '7If names have special significance in this work, then presumably-and it has been suggested to me-so should that of Aurelio. However, this character neither parallels nor analogically contradicts that of Aurelian or Marcus Aurelius, the only historical personages the name calls to my mind, so the most one can make of it is an oblique suggestion of aura to mark the man as a blowhard. It seems that Romero did select names with historical or

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