Friday, May 9, 2008








They waited respectfully for him to finish and then they said, their faces slowly disappearing in the gloom, Listen, we'll let you go if you tell us what fuego means in English.


Fire, he blurted out, unable to help himself.


-p. 322 "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz


[Demarest Hall & College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 2005-2006]

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