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Post by mj on Nov 22, 2005 8:29:22 GMT -5
A new work of work of fiction by Gabriel García Márquez: www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/books/22kaku.htmlIts narrator, a former scholar known by his students as Prof. Gloomy Hills, is turning 90 and decides to celebrate his birthday by having sex with a young virgin. He places a call to the madam of his favorite brothel and makes arrangements to spend the night with a 14-year-old girl. In the course of recounting the relationship he develops with this girl, whom he calls Delgadina, the old man also ruminates about "the miseries" of his "misguided life."
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