From 'The Book of Visions and Apparitions.' (fiction) (excerpt)(The Literature of Democratic Spain: 1975-1992)

From: The Literary Review | Date: March 22, 1993| Author: Alborg, Concha; Castillo-Puche, Jose Luis | Copyright information

The Blindfold fell like a cascade of blindfolds, pigeons' droppings, fish scales, snow flakes, and you, my little angel, unpolluted bud, unwithered daffodil, morning star, the truth is that you ended up being a perfect pig, once the slippery bridge of adolescence was crossed, that illusive age in which you held the Virgin Mary's cloak at arms length, those years in which the boiling blood was still lukewarm and the Pope would talk with you from Rome and your pale mother had two app...

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