By Horatio Castellanos Moya
A surreal and macabre farce, half Buster Keaton, half time bomb, a couple of younger sociologist who assumes the identification of a vagrant guy residing in an deserted Chevrolet, who then wreaks havoc on San Salvador with a pack of snakes. Translated from the Spanish.
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So says this one-eyed Armenian fortune-teller as he peers into his crystal ball. " he said. There wasn't a flicker of recognition in his eyes, although he knew who I was and that I would be coming to the house at any time. He and Gregory had resolved to give me a chilly welcome. I can only guess at their deliberations prior to my arrival, but they must have been along the lines of my being a parasite which Marilee had brought into the house, a thief who had already stolen hundreds of dollars' worth of art materials.
I hope I haven't done anything wrong so far. There weren't any other Mohammedans to advise me. " I didn't want to spoil his good time, so I told him that everything looked perfect to me. "Just don't eat pork too near the casket," I said. " he said. " Which he did. 9 How GOOD were those pictures of mine which Dan Gregory looked at so briefly before he shoved Marilee down the stairs? Technically, if not spiritually, they were pretty darn good for a kid my age -- a kid whose self-imposed lessons had consisted of copying, stroke by stroke, illustrations by Dan Gregory.
The farms that were whisked away by the winds: where are they now? Growing fish food on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. These defeated white Indians at the crossings were nothing new to me. I had seen plenty of them passing through San Ignacio, asking the likes of me or my father, or even an emotionally opaque Luma Indian, if we knew of somebody who needed anybody to do work of any kind. And I was awakened from my railroad dream at midnight by Fred Jones. He said that Mr. Gregory would see me now.
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