A Distant Father by Antonio Skarmeta

Author:Antonio Skarmeta [Skármeta, Antonio]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59051-626-3
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2014-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Outside the door they’ve still got a hitching post so cowboys can tie up their horses. The miller’s standing there, yawning.

“So how was it?”

“Great.”

“Good-looking chick?”

“Yes, Cristián, she was hot.”

“What did you two talk about?”

“Foolishness. Ourselves. How about you?”

“We couldn’t find a common theme. I mean, she wasn’t a very communicative girl.”

We take the dirt road to the train station. A slice of moon rises up amid black clouds. No rain, however. It’s cold.

“So you and her didn’t talk at all.”

“Two or three words. Believe it or not, she asked me for a bread recipe.”

“An interesting subject, Cristián. What’s the recipe for baking a baguette?”

“The one your father used.”

“What recipe did my father use?”

“You’re putting me on. You want me to give you the recipe right now?”

“At this moment, there’s nothing in the world I desire more than to know how to bake a baguette.”

“Two kilos of flour, a cup and a half of warm water, one hundred grams of yeast, two and a half tablespoons of butter, three cups of water, a tablespoon of salt. All right?”

For a while I follow the moon’s comings and goings in the ragged sky, and then I trip on a rock. I drop the little satchel I’m carrying, pick it up, and slap it against my thigh to knock off the dirt.

“If a person climbed up to the sails of the mill and jumped off, do you think he’d kill himself?”

“If anybody was crazy enough to do that, he’d probably break his neck.”

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