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Testament
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39 Testament In this hemisphere the choices are all bright silver and submerged, or pale blue with cherry-colored fins on Limoges, a platter of saffron breads and scarlet snouts. To illustrate: somewhere deep in the interior, there was a waterfall and ripe vegetation—coconuts and banana trees, nameless plants with star-shaped trunks, tips sharp as blades—and don’t forget the flying foxes, the wild pigs. Back by the water’s edge, all manner of delicacies: white flesh, soft and flat, spoiled in the sun’s heat and unspoiled in the cool of night. One employs false methods, takes liberties, smashes into everything, the eager heart goes blind. You leave the world to its broad daylight. You’re cheating. It’s a crime, but isn’t it a kind of glory? You do it because love adores, it burns inside you, and with it, the water burns like a sulfur torch. This page intentionally left blank. ...