A Mother’s Love/ Mario Vargas LLosa
He remembered how he had begun to inhale ether because ether brought him peace after those attacks in which he was exhausted, humiliated, and with bristling nerves. How, later, opium saved him from the transitory lucid death of sneezing attacks. The affection, the lullaby, the consolation, and the smell of that woman— who had killed […]
A Note from Noah’s Ark
For people in their seventies like me, some confinement has already lasted for six months. Fatigue takes its toll, and complacency attempts to set in. The coronavirus knows how to wait and still kills one thousand people in the US every day. Some of us have begun to stick our necks out of our carapaces. […]
