"I MISS MY GRANNY..."
"CUB, YOU SAY SHE'S ALIVE SOMEWHERE"
"SOMEWHERE NOT NEXT TO ME..."
"???"
"IT'S NOTHING, I'M JUST FEELING PERTURBINGLY HUMAN LATELY..."
"MY ERIC NORTHMAN..., CUB"
"IT'S TRUE... MY NIRVANA'S STILL NOT FIXED"
"SURE BETTER NOT HAVE THOSE EMOTIONS???"
"O.O"
"DON'T THEY SAY THAT... PEOPLE IN NIRVANA ARE LIKE DEAD BUT ALIVE CAUSE THEY DIED AND... SOMETHING ABOUT SAMSARA???"
"VAMPIRES ARE NOT ABOUT THAT???"
"CHILL OUT, YOU ARE FINE"
"???"
"ALRIGHT"
"WELL. SO ABOUT MY GRANNY, FIRST THERE ARE THREE WORDS I PREFFER NOT TO USE..."
"ARE MUTANTS DANGEROUS?"
"NO, MICHAEL..."
"..."
"LOOK. THREE WORDS"
SIN · JESUS · DEVIL
"WHY NOT???"
"CAUE PEOPLE MISUSE THEM. THAT I KNOW THE ONLY SIN THAT EXISTS IS STOP BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF"
"YEAH, YOU READ THAT IN DEMIAN"
"YES, LIKE ALL YOUNGSTERS SINCE IT GOT PUBLISHED"
"SECOND, JESUS. THAT IS A STEREOTYPE WORD THAT LEADS TO MISUNDERSTAND A LOT OF THINGS, AND EVEN TO WAR"
"AND THE THIRD"
"DEVIL. IS BETTER NOT THINK THAT GUY EXISTS, PEOPLE ARE PRONE TO SEE IT IN LADY GAGA VIDEOS OR MUSIC OR MOVIES OR PAINTINGS, ART IN GENERAL, OBVIOUSLY THEY FORGET THAT GUY APPEARS IN THE BIBLE MORE THAN ANY OTHER CHARACTER"
"SO???"
"WELL. I WAS TOLD AT COLLEGE THAT LATIN AMERICA IS A ROMANTIC (ROMANTICISM IN ART: PLEASE START GOOGLING IT) ZONE"
"BECAUSE..."
"WELL... THERE ARE LOTS OF SUPERSTICIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, LOVE REALLY DOESN'T EXIST IN LATIN AMERICA, IT IS IN PHASE OF DEVELOPEMENT, BUT EASIER TO FIND IN..."
"ARGENTINA"
"YES!!! YOU WON IN JEOPARDY. BUT EVEN THOUGH, EVERYBODY BELIEVES THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. AND THEN WE GO TO RELIGION, THEY SEE RELIGION IN A SUPERSTICIOUS WAY. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THEY SEE AN IMAGE OF THE VIRGIN, THEY REALLY THINK THE IMAGE "IS" THE VIRGIN, NOT JUST A SCULPTURE. HOWEVER, SOME YEARS AGO A GUY THREW A MOLOTOV TO A VIRGIN IMAGE. I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY TILL I KNEW THE PRICE OF THE SCULPTURE AND HOW MUCH TIME AND MONEY THEY HAD TO PUT TO RESTORE IT. BUT, PEOPLE IN THE NEWS WERE ASKED WHAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND THE COMMON ANSWER WAS "THEY BURNED THE VIRGIN, THE MOTHER OF GOD, OUR GOD" OF COURSE THOSE GUYS WENT TO CHURCH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIFE ONLY TO SEE THE VIRGIN SCULPTURE BURNT, THE GUY WITH THE MOLOTOV MADE A HUGE FAVOR TO THAT CHAPEL"
"I DON' GET... IT"
"LOOK. ROMANTICISM HAS THE IDEA THAT THE MIDDLE AGES WERE AWESOME BECAUSE THERE WAS NO TECHNOLOGY OR SCIENCE, AND MAGIC AND REALITY WERE JOINT, LIKE THAT GOT TO ITS PEAK IN THE GOTHIC PERIOD. I'VE READ THAT FAIRY TALES WERE NOT IMAGINATION, THAT REALITY WAS LIKE THAT, THAT THERE WERE WITCHES, AND ALL WE CAN SEE IN DISNEY MOVIES, AND THAT WAS "REAL". THE POINT IS MIDDLE AGES ARE CALLED DARK BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS VERY MUCH ABOUT MIDDLE AGES AS ONLY PRIESTS KNEW HOW TO READ, SO WHO WAS GONNA WRITE???"
"THAT EXPLAINS THE LACK OF HISTORIC DOCUMENTS"
"YEP"
"SO WHAT ABOUT YOUR GRANNY???"
"LOOK. HERE IN CHILE ALL PEOPLE HAD CROSSES OF "PALKI", A PLANT, IN THEIR HOUSES TO KEEP "THE DEEEEVIIIIIL" OUTSIDE HOME, WHEN THERE WHERE NO CITIES AND ALL THE COUNTRY WAS COUNTRY"
"SO"
"THERE ARE STORIES ABOUT THAT A BLACK CHARIOT COULD APPEAR AND A GUY WITH A BLACK HAT AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO IN THE COUNTRY PEOPLE ARE RELIGIOUS BUT, BELIEVE MORE IN THE DEVIL THAN GOD, THEY THINK THE DEEEEEVIIIIIIIIL IS MORE REAL. STRANGE HUH????"
"SO THE POINT IS... CUB... YOU THINK THE DEVIL EXISTS??? GET REAL"
"I DON'T THINK SO, BUT MAYBE IT DOES. OR HE. OR HIM"
"???"
"WELL, MY GRANNY HAD ESP, SO SHE USED TO SAY THAT IN MY HOUSE WHERE GHOSTS"
"REALLY??? HELL!!!"
"WELL WHEN MY COUSINS COME WE TALK AND WE SAY "IT SEEMS THAT WAS TRUE"... OR IS"
"SCARY!"
"WELL JOSH SAYS SOME PEOPLE STAYS HERE. IS THAT TRUE??? HAVE NO IDEA"
"SO YOUR GRANNY WENT TO THE COUNTRY AND SAW THE DEVIL"
"YES. THERE'S A THREE STAR HOTEL NEAR SAINT TERESA TEMPLE WE DON'T TALK ABOUT CAUSE IT'S SO GOOD, THAT THEN THE WORD WILL GET SPREAD AND IF WE GO AGAIN IT WILL BE FULL. SO WE WENT THERE WITH HER ONCE WHEN I WAS PUP. SHE SAID SHE SAW A MULE"
"SAW???"
"IF SHE WANTED TO, SHE COULD HAVE TOUCHED IT, SO IT WAS NOT ESP STUFF, THAT MULE WAS REAL. SO, LOOK SHE TOLD US THAT THE MULE WAS TOO MUCH BEAUTIFUL TO BE REAL, AND THAT LOOKED LIKE IT HAD MAKE UP WITHOUT HAVING IT. SO SHE CROSSED THE ROAD AND THEN TURNED AROUND AND THE MULE WAS THERE. SHE TOLD US MANY TIMES THAT THE MULE MADE NO NOISES WHEN IT CROSSED THE ROAD"
"MAYBE SHE TOOK THE WRONG TURN"
"NO, HONEY, SHE TURNED... RIGHT!!!!"
"HELL!!! YOU'LL SAY THAT FOREVER??? LIKE THE BULLSHIT STRANDED MOVIE!!!???"
"NOPE???. SO. LOOK. SHE HAD ESP SO SHE FIGURED OUT SOMETHING WAS WRONG ABOUT THE MULE. I SAID THE MULE, NOT THE TURN, FINE? SO SHE STARTED PRAYING TO THE VIRGIN AND FREAKED OUT AND THEN THE MULE DISSAPEARED IN FRONT OF HER EYES"
"WOW. WHAT A GREAT STORY TO TELL TO THE GRANDSONS"
"MIKE, SHE WAS NOT LYING. SHE WAS SURE IT WAS THE DEVIL. AND WAS TAKING HER CROSS AND THINGS LIKE THAT ALL WEEKEND. SHE WAS SO CUTE"
"HAHAHAHA"
"MIKE, AND I TOLD THE STORY AT SCHOOL LIKE, SOMETHING, I DUNNO, LIKE... "I SAW IN TV... I DON'T KNOW WHAT" AND THEN ALL MY CLASSMATES WHERE TALKING ABOUT IT AND SAYING THAT THE DEVIL WAS REAL"
"SO LATIN AMERICA IS ROMANTIC"
"I MISS MY GRANNY"
"HUG ME"
