A Village: Tournee

well-told tale of Massieta taken to hospital - Erdman seems to be finally comfortable writing

pg 294-5: ah, gold: a good friend and fellow PCV died, and Erdman reacted physically as Angelique reacts to her brother's death in hospital (strange how she chose not to talk about her friend or his-her death at all - or her family and friends outside the village - as if they aren't part of the story - I want to disagree, but this was Erdman's conscious choice - to focus on the village?)

beautiful - death binds us all

she poses that condom use could have been accepted if presented as a fetish

( I know she is leaving soon) and she tells death story, Oumar's move story, sorcerer's airplane, saying bye to Oumar, misses darkness when lights come, stars