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• The Boy of Clay – Chapter 2, Part 6

  January 8, 2014

    Some juicy stuff in this one. Evaristo expounds on my great-great-great-grandmother, who sounds like an amazing woman. Don't want to give it away, but something big happened that she ended up carrying in stoic silence for most of her life. The more I translate, the more these people seem l...

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• The Boy of Clay – Chapter 2, Part 5

  November 10, 2013

    The world of children is like the world of dreams, as well as the world of art. Everything is possible in the world of children, since everything is possible in the world of dreams and art... Outside of his magical world, the child gets bored. His passion for the heroic, the fearless, the ...

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• The Boy of Clay – Chapter 2, Part 4

  October 21, 2013

    We were accompanied, as was customary at the time, by one of those popular characters that festooned the city during that period, bestowing the greatest pleasure for both children and adults. They nicknamed him Muñeco (doll). Muñeco was an old mulatto, with mousy eyes and a t...

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• The Boy of Clay – Chapter 2, Part 3

  October 7, 2013

    In this excerpt, we finally find out why the book is entitled The Boy of Clay. The reason is particularly touching knowing that my great great grandmother, who seems like a lovely, compassionate and angelic woman, had by then already lost a son to innocent play. She might be overprotective...

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• The Boy of Clay – Chapter 2, Part 2

  September 26, 2013

  This excerpt should put to rest the tenuous rumor that my family are descendants of Ponce de León. If that were truly the case, I can't help but think it would have been mentioned somewhere in the following... When the voice of el sereno sang: "Nine o' clock and all's well," Mama...

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• The Boy of Clay – Chapter 2, Part 1

  September 16, 2013

    There is an infinitesimal mention of my great-grandfather José in this chapter. I'm not sure if Evaristo is saying that he could remember very little of his brother in childhood, or if he could barely remember him at all. It's such a strange dynamic, and it's a mystery I'll hopefull...

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• Marijuana Kills Cancer (We Love You Robin!)

  September 10, 2013

      Howard, Robin and friends,   My brother and I have been enjoying the show for years and are tremendously grateful for the decades worth of comedy, insight and entertainment. We're also thankful that Robin--the warm, radiant heart of the show has conquered her cancer and will co...

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• The Boy of Clay – Chapter 1

  September 3, 2013

    I've translated a good deal of my great-granduncle Evaristo's poetic collections. I got a powerful urge to continue the literary exploration, but wanted to work on his prose instead. El Niño de Arcilla (The Boy of Clay) is an autobiographical work written about Evaristo's childhood....

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• Buying a Used Car in 49 Easy Steps (con’t)

  May 16, 2013

    THAT ETERNAL DOTTED LINE... 34. That following Monday, take a bus to the DMV. You never got a "payoff receipt," or anything that directly proves you're responsible for paying off the TFS account, but you have enough paperwork for the average person to reasonably connect the dots ...

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