“por las altas torres de San Francisco y de la isla de Manhattan,”

Mario Vargas Llosa
The War of the End of the World
Prov. 6:8
"Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest."

Climbing to New Heights
Fire Escape, Pau, France

Chess: “FH” “top”

“por las altas torres de San Francisco y de la isla de Manhattan,” JLB: Otro poema de los dones.

“Mario Vargas Llosa” “Antonio Consejero”

The War of the End of the World (1981) is a story of a revolt against the Brazilian government in the late 19th-century and the brutal response of the authorities. A religious fanatic, known as Conselheiro (Counselor), is followed by a huge band of disciples drawn from the fringes of society. Before the army of the Republic wins, the modern rational world suffers several humiliating defeats with the group of outcasts. Vargas Llosa uses Euclides da Cunha's account of the events, Os sertões (1902), as a source. One of the characters, a "nearsighted journalist", is loosely based on da Cunha.