The Lunatic by Anthony C. Winkler

Author:Anthony C. Winkler [Winkler, Anthony C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2007-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Under the rule of pum-pum there were civic improvements made in the plot of pastureland in the bush: A house was built. It was a house such as poor men have made in Jamaica since the malarial beginnings of the Fallen Empire. Its walls were made of wattled sticks, sealed with river mud, and stank like the dried hide of an old animal. It had a sloping roof of plywood covered with galvanized zinc sheets and a dirt floor overlaid with sheets of cardboard.

On the day the house was finished Inga took numerous pictures of it and made endless drawings and notes. It was her idea to build the house. She had given Aloysius and Service the money to buy the few materials needed and told them where she wanted it raised under the sheltering overhang of the flame heart tree.

By the time the rainy season began the three of them were living in the house in these the days when rain roared on the roof and the nights when the pasture blew with the chill of an ocean breeze.

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