Alan Weisman - Gaviotas by A Village to Reinvent the World

Author:A Village to Reinvent the World
Format: epub
Published: 2013-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

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“pepe GOMEZ wants to meet you,” guillermo perry told paolo Lugari.

“Who’s Pepe Gomez?” asked Paolo. They were chatting after a meet­ing in Bogota of the Institute Geografico Agustin Codazi, which had undertaken extensive soil studies in the llanos. Both Lugari and Perry, then the director of Colombia’s federal tax bureau, were board members.

“Pepe Gomez is a very bright friend of mine. A social scientist. He’s also a great-grandson of Pepe Sierra.”

That got Paolo’s attention. “Why does he want to meet me?”

“He’s heard that Gaviotas is very interesting.”

A legend about Pepe Gomez’s great-grandfather Pepe Sierra tells of the day he went to a notary to have a deed copied. The clerk who had him put the request in writing read it and smirked. A little too loudly in the adjacent office, he announced to a colleague that this ignorant bumpkin had spelled hacienda without an h.*

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