Martín Luis Guzmán Quote

Here lay the dilemma: either Villa would submit to the idea of the revolution without understanding it, in which case he and the true revolution would succeed; or Villa would follow his instincts blindly, and the revolution and he would both fail.


El Aguila y la Serpiente (The Eagle and the Serpent) (1928), pt. II, bk. I, ch. 1


Here lay the dilemma: either Villa would submit to the idea of the revolution without understanding it, in which case he and the true revolution...

Here lay the dilemma: either Villa would submit to the idea of the revolution without understanding it, in which case he and the true revolution...

Here lay the dilemma: either Villa would submit to the idea of the revolution without understanding it, in which case he and the true revolution...

Here lay the dilemma: either Villa would submit to the idea of the revolution without understanding it, in which case he and the true revolution...