Virility and grace
“For nimble thought can jump both sea and land.” A few short hours after I posted my apology for inadvertantly giving Néstor Amarilla a sex-change operation, I received this gracious email from Paraguay, under the subject line “Apologies Accepted”:
Señora Cynthia,
My U.S. representative just passed me the link to your blog and I read your apology, which wasn’t necessary, but thank you anyway for bringing back my virility.
Saludos desde Asunción.
Néstor Amarilla
Thank you, Señor Amarilla! Good luck on the Nobel thingumme! I very much look forward to reading your plays! In translation … alas! (I know, “kill me, kill me…“)
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Funny reply from Amarilla! Thank you anyway for giving me back my virility. 🙂