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Don Jorge Quesada in the Zona Rosa house 2000


















Don Jorge Quesada in the Zona Rosa house 2000

Don Jorge has a double doctorate from the university of Navarre. He's the youngest of Tere's uncles and has sacrificed his life to teaching in higher education sometimes in the most remote and harsh environments in Mexico and Latin America. He is wonderful to talk to, but his special interest is astronomy and I remember he gave me a book, long ago in 1994, which showed the cosmic imprint of background radiation.

We lived right opposite the Observatory in Guadalajara. Its roof was across from ours and sometimes I would go up in the night and look at the stars and at the observatory and wish that I too was an astronomer. Don Jorge was very indulgent of my skepticism. He smiled and smiled, but couldn't really be bothered to explain too much. I think priests see the negation of atheists as, essentially, part of a contrarian search for God.

Don Jorge introduced me to the anthropic principle. When we were in Mexico he loved having a tea with us in the afternoon and after a little banter would drive away again in his Volkswagen Beatle. Of course we saw him much more rarely when he went to Sinaloa. Don Jorge is an absolutely delightful, erudite man.

Above, you see Tere has a PAN T-Shirt on. We are still campaigning for a change in government and we are on the verge of Fox's historic victory in 2000. Fox likened the achievement of defeating and uprooting the PRI to putting a man on the moon and he was right. We all prised its claws off the reigns of power.
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