"La Marioneta," the presentation as a montage was sent to me recently; it has been on the net for quite some time. ("La Marioneta" is a chain mail with a text that is attributed to Márquez's "A Genius bids Farewell"). The text was allegedly written when Márquez learned about his cancer. "La Marioneta" was authored by a Mexican Johnny Welch as a speech for his puppet and eventually circulated the Internet in July 1999 anonymously. Márquez remarked about this hoax: "What hurts me most is the shame to believe that I would have authored such a "corny" text.