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"I can't bear the noise she's making as she sits beside my bed arranging syringes and needles in the white enameled iron kidney basin with its thin blue edge. Why isn't she careful to do it more silently if Don Jeronimo ordered them to pamper me?"

"He had all the trees cut down whose tops could be seen from the inside of the house. Besides he had the last court closed off with a solid wall, the court with the pond, and at the head of this rectangular pond he put up a Huntress Diana in gray stone carved according to his stipulations: humpbacked with acromegalic jaw and crooked legs carrying her quiver on her hump and the new moon on her wrinkled forehead."

"She's the only one left at the lighted window. She grinds her hips. Sticking out her breasts, she smooths her sweater with a long caress that runs the whole length of her body and ends with her hiking her skirt to show her heavy thighs that are a quivering mass, while her other hand piles up her hair and she puckers her lips as if she were about to give someone a madly passionate kiss."