The Kaleidoscope
The Kaleidoscope I don't know what madness got into Mr. Juvenal's head. The place where he and Dona Maria lived was already the world’s end. And yet, he decided to move further away. Maria accepted because she was a woman who would accept anything, but she couldn't understand her husband's head. In part, she did. He was a hell of a hermit; it seems he feared people. For her, she didn't care. What worried her the most was the child. What would Joana, a three-year-old girl, do in such a place? Children end up surviving everything. And Joana created her little fantasy world right there. The closest neighbors weren't close at all; they were far away. Geronimo, however, was easier to see than the others. He was about 20 years old and followed his father's career: a backwoods traveling salesman. He brought things that people who live at the end of the world need—a little salt, seasoning, and pepper. Yes, of course, wheat flour, since cassava and corn, Maria grew...