The Bad Girl
“"Yes, Uncle Ricardo, science and technology have solved all the mysteries of the universe except this one. Didn't anybody ever tell you that?" Ever since Uncle Ataulfo introduced me to his nephew, an engineer who had graduated from MIT and was considered the star of the Lamiel family, and who called me "uncle" even though I wasn't, since I was Ataulfo's nephew from a different branch of the family, I had felt a certain antipathy toward the triumphant young man: he talked too much, and in an unb...earably pontificating tone.
But, evidently, the antipathy wasn't reciprocal, because since our meeting his attentions toward me had increased, and he displayed an esteem as effusive as it was incomprehensible. What interest could an obscure expatriate translator, back in Peru after so many years and looking at everything with a mixture of nostalgia and stupefaction, hold for this brilliant, successful young man who was putting up buildings everywhere in the expansive Lima of the 1980s?MoreLess
But, evidently, the antipathy wasn't reciprocal, because since our meeting his attentions toward me had increased, and he displayed an esteem as effusive as it was incomprehensible. What interest could an obscure expatriate translator, back in Peru after so many years and looking at everything with a mixture of nostalgia and stupefaction, hold for this brilliant, successful young man who was putting up buildings everywhere in the expansive Lima of the 1980s?MoreLess
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