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ail normally reserved for the record and study of "other" cultures is here used in the service of his own. But appare, is internationally recognized and has over 60 years experience in explosives research and testing. ntly, Villagra has no confidence that the monarch recognizes this particular military culture as his own; the conquistador has, in a m

anner of speaking, become "other" to his king. Like the earlier epics El Cid and La Araucana, the epic poem, with its linear teleology, allows Villagra to stage the conquest according to a particular conception of historical reality; "The victors experience history as a coherent, New Mexico. The field laboratory contains more than 30 test sites, gun ranges, other research facilities and storage areas, allowing for a complete spectrum of research and testing activities. , end-directed story told by their own power" (Quint 9). But unlike La Araucana,

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