abandon their sons because they canât stand it when they start to look like their fathers,â SofÃa laughed. âWho wants to be a mother when youâre horny?â Smoking, the ember glowing in the dark was like her voice. âMy father lives here, downstairs, he keeps us with him, and we take care of him because we know that heâs been defeated on all counts. He never recovered from the psychotic decision that his wife made, according to him, to leave when she was pregnant and run away with a theatre company director who was intown for a few months staging Hamlet ( or was it A Dollâs House ?). To live with another and have the baby with another. Whose child was it? He was obsessed, my father. He made his wifeâs life impossible. One afternoon he went out looking for her and found her, but she locked herself up in her car, so he started pounding on the windows and yelling and insulting her, by the main square, with people gathering around, delighted, murmuring and nodding in approval. Thatâs when his Irish wife left, she abandoned both sons, and erased her tracks. Around here the women run away, if they can.â
Luca was raised as a legitimate son and treated in the same manner as his brother, but he never forgave his father, the one who claimed to be his father, for this indulgence.
âMy brother Luca always thought that he wasnât my fatherâs son. He grew up sheltered by Grandfather Bruno, heâd follow him everywhere, like an abandoned puppy. But thatâs not why he finally confronted my father, thatâs not why. And thatâs also not why they killed Tony.â
10 Â Â Â The first Japanese immigrant arrives in Argentina in 1886, a certain Professor Seizo Itoh from the School of Agriculture in Sapporo. He takes up residence in the Province of Buenos Aires. In 1911, Seicho Arakaki is born, the first Argentine of Japanese origin ( Nikkei ). The last Argentine census (1969) records the presence of 23,185 Japanese and descendents.
11 Â Â Â Bruno Belladona was very influenced by the treatise Field, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Prince Pyotr Kropotkin, the great Russian geographer, anarchist, and free-thinker. Kropotkin proposed that the development of communications and the flexibility of electric energy should establish the basis of a manufacturing production decentralized into small, self-sufficient units, set up in isolated, rural areas, outside the conglomeration of large cities. He defended the production model of small workshops with their large potential for creative innovation, because the more delicate the technology, the greater the need for human initiative and individual skill.
12 Â Â Â âOnce,â SofÃa told him, âthey took apart the engine of one of the first mechanical threshing machines and left the bolts and nuts to dry on the grass while they started looking at the blades. All of a sudden, a rhea came out of nowhere and ate the nuts shining in the sun. Gulp, gulp, went the rheaâs throat as it swallowed several nuts and bolts. Then it started walking backwards, sideways, its eyes bulged out. They tried to lasso it, but it was impossible, it would run like a light, then stop and turn back toward them with such a crazy look, it seemed offended. Finally they had to chase down the ostrich in a car to recover the parts of the machine it had swallowed.â
13 Â Â Â In the old days, they used to separate the different estancias by digging ditches between them to prevent the cattle from one to cross over into the other. This work of digging trenches in the pampas was done by Basques and Irish immigrants. The local gauchos refused to do any kind of task that meant dismounting from their horses; they considered despicable any work that had to be done âon footâ (cf. John Lynch, Massacre in the Pampas ).
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The Inspector got in his car and headed out of town on the road parallel to the train
Luca was raised as a legitimate son and treated in the same manner as his brother, but he never forgave his father, the one who claimed to be his father, for this indulgence.
âMy brother Luca always thought that he wasnât my fatherâs son. He grew up sheltered by Grandfather Bruno, heâd follow him everywhere, like an abandoned puppy. But thatâs not why he finally confronted my father, thatâs not why. And thatâs also not why they killed Tony.â
10 Â Â Â The first Japanese immigrant arrives in Argentina in 1886, a certain Professor Seizo Itoh from the School of Agriculture in Sapporo. He takes up residence in the Province of Buenos Aires. In 1911, Seicho Arakaki is born, the first Argentine of Japanese origin ( Nikkei ). The last Argentine census (1969) records the presence of 23,185 Japanese and descendents.
11 Â Â Â Bruno Belladona was very influenced by the treatise Field, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Prince Pyotr Kropotkin, the great Russian geographer, anarchist, and free-thinker. Kropotkin proposed that the development of communications and the flexibility of electric energy should establish the basis of a manufacturing production decentralized into small, self-sufficient units, set up in isolated, rural areas, outside the conglomeration of large cities. He defended the production model of small workshops with their large potential for creative innovation, because the more delicate the technology, the greater the need for human initiative and individual skill.
12 Â Â Â âOnce,â SofÃa told him, âthey took apart the engine of one of the first mechanical threshing machines and left the bolts and nuts to dry on the grass while they started looking at the blades. All of a sudden, a rhea came out of nowhere and ate the nuts shining in the sun. Gulp, gulp, went the rheaâs throat as it swallowed several nuts and bolts. Then it started walking backwards, sideways, its eyes bulged out. They tried to lasso it, but it was impossible, it would run like a light, then stop and turn back toward them with such a crazy look, it seemed offended. Finally they had to chase down the ostrich in a car to recover the parts of the machine it had swallowed.â
13 Â Â Â In the old days, they used to separate the different estancias by digging ditches between them to prevent the cattle from one to cross over into the other. This work of digging trenches in the pampas was done by Basques and Irish immigrants. The local gauchos refused to do any kind of task that meant dismounting from their horses; they considered despicable any work that had to be done âon footâ (cf. John Lynch, Massacre in the Pampas ).
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The Inspector got in his car and headed out of town on the road parallel to the train
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