HOOKED ON COCALAND
part of a page of
the Dr.’s first Colombian diary with a colorful Colombian
beer bottle label pasted to it
translation:[1]
EAGLE BEER
A Colombian
Industry
300 ml - Beer Brewing of (the City of)
Eagle
Brewery, Inc.
‘DRINKING TOO MUCH IS HARMFUL
TO HEALTH’
Editors’ note to reader –
The notion that someone might break down the
rambling journal from mj lorenzo’s first trip to
and then might edit the pieces and title them
as chapters and subsections in a guide book;
a saint’s
guide book, in fact;
for gringos;
who are lost;
trying to find paradise:
came from mj’s journal itself (as will be
seen).
The idea was mj’s, but the execution
was the editorial staff’s.
Accordingly, the Editor-in-Chief, Sammy
Martinez, accepts responsibility for all titles:
for book title;
division titles;
and subsection titles,
except the title for subsection 1, which Dr.
Lorenzo offered in his first day’s log (as will also be
seen).
– the editors
a piece of paradise, Santisima Cruz on the Rio Mojana
in the ‘Department’ (meaning ‘State’) of Sucre
in the incomparable country of Colombia
(with Pedro the teenage barber-fisherman)
"everywhere, i said
to Angel, there were soldiers holding automatic rifles
waist high
ready to fire
and now there were two more at the main dock.
why?!
'There are guerrillas nearby and…' something, something.
'How close are they?'
i asked.
'Ai! They're not
close, the soldiers are just guarding the town'!"