Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez

Author:Gabriel García Márquez [Márquez, Gabriel García]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Social Science, Literary, Romance, Gerontology, Prostitutes, Colombia
ISBN: 9781400095940
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2006-11-14T19:42:30.378000+00:00

When the storm had passed I still had the feeling I was not alone in the house. My only explanation is that just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they had happened. For if I evoked the emergency of the rainstorm, I did not see myself alone in the house but always accompanied by Delgadina. I had felt her so close during the night that I detected the sound of her breath in the bedroom and the throbbing of her cheek on my pillow. It was only the way I could understand how we could have done so much in so short a time. I remembered standing on the library footstool, and I remembered her awake in her little flowered dress taking the books from me to put them in a safe place. I saw her running from one end of the house to the other battling the storm, drenched with rain and in water up to her ankles. I remembered how the next day she prepared a breakfast that never was and set the table while I dried the floors and imposed order on the shipwreck of the house. I never forgot her somber look as we were eating. Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.

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