A short snippet this week. There’s
not much more I can add to this one. For those of you who speak Spanish, you
will be familiar with the word ‘poto’. For those of you who don’t, I think
you’ll get the gist.
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| ornamental mates burilados in Nazca, Peru |
Lost in translation
In which the young Hernan makes a seemingly simple request
In which the young Hernan makes a seemingly simple request
One evening when we were in Cochabamba, Tello quietly called me over to him and whispered to me under his breath. The hollow, dried out pumpkin or mate that he was using as a chamber pot had a hole in it and he needed another one. But he didn't want to be the one to ask our hostess for it. Could I do it?
