To the rightthe hills swerved inland, to meet the
sheer, fluted sides of drymountains. She had been able to get at theother woman,
touch the raw.
Hebelonged to Sayula, and had come back for a
visit. With their ugly little wills, trying to pull her will down. But Kate had to
rouse her into getting some simplemedicine. Ah, what is aman but a little boy who
needs a nurse and a mother!
She had been able to get at theother woman, touch
the raw.
For it means the death either of me or him. So she
had the two girlsfor an hour a day, teaching them to read, to sew, to
draw.
On the patches of the mountain slope little patches
of maizewere to be seen. Animpassive male cruelty, changeless as a stone idol. I
will send a man to come with you, said Don Ramón. Her own final conclusion aboutmen
was that THEY were the vanity of vanities, nothing but vanity.
The men just left that partof the lake to the
women.
And she wanted to be able to provoke thatanger, of
which she felt a certain abject twinge of fear.
Nowhere in Mexico is there any sign of energy. They
must be flattered and made to feel great: Nothing else. They must be flattered and
made to feel great: Nothing else.
They had to carry all water from the lake to
theirhouses.
And thedrum, thudding with its dulled, black
insistence, made her uneasy. Here there was no discipline nor method at
all.
He had abasket, and had been shopping in the
market.
Kate sat in absolute dismay, waiting for the other
woman to recoverherself.
But, then, Kate was not responsible for that. And
APPARENTLY, there is passionate life. As if it were, like the charales swimming,just
a natural part of the lake life. As if it were, like the charales swimming,just a
natural part of the lake life. Butthat nasty insinuating insultingness is not fair
in the game.
They didnt want the thing theywere pursuing. Each
one isolated in his own fate, his eyes black andquick like a snakes, and as
blank.
She was shown into a high, simple, rather bare
bedroom with red-tiled floor.
Her own final conclusion aboutmen was that THEY
were the vanity of vanities, nothing but vanity. And on to the particularwhite mans
levels they never will be able to climb.