There are those who swear that the Devil hides in the jungle, beyond the perimeter, where the branches whisper secrets that drive men crazy.
The Devil can be a cloud, a shadow, a gust of wind that shakes the leaves. He can be the nightjar flying across the sky or a reflection on the surface of the river. Some say that he travels with the wind, others that he dwells in electricity. There are those who swear that he hides in the jungle, beyond the perimeter, where the branches whisper secrets that drive men crazy. But the Devil is also the scarecrow that runs across the fields when everyone is asleep.
The perimeter is our heritage, a reminder of our triumph over the world. But, according to Olga, the adults made up those stories about the Outside just to scare us. The tallest one, Jonas, began to take an unhealthy interest in the highway. One night, he heard laughter and voices, and climbed out his bedroom window, barefoot. Beyond the perimeter he saw the blinking eyes of motorbikes. The intruders had long hair and fingerless black leather gloves, and when they saw Jonas they whistled to him.They spoke Bolivian, so Olga and I couldn’t understand, but Jonas could because he was already old enough to go to the city with his father to buy seeds.
Jonas shifted a brick in the wall of the stable, reached into the hiding place, and took out a little metallic ball that gave off a pink glow. The ball picked up a signal from Outside; the guys had given it to him so they could stay in touch. Fear rose from the pit of my stomach, swirling weirdly. Jonas placed the metallic ball on a brick; it began to wake up and blink and make a noise like boiling oil. Then the ball spoke with a woman’s voice, hoarse and measured.But there was no time to reply.
That night Olga didn’t want to go to sleep. Rosie’s dream got her pregnant, she said, lying next to me, and when I came closer to suck her tit she pushed me away. Don’t you want to play cows and calves anymore? I asked. Olga turned her back on me, anxiously pinching her arms to keep her eyes open, afraid of dreaming . . . of what? Children without fathers are leaves on the wind, not knowing who they are, where they come from, what carries them. They have to be given an anchor.
“Think of the center,” Olga said, and the center was a burning tip, a needle heated on an anvil. A lightning bolt.She made me drink another glass. The rest of my body had gone numb. Just that instinctive retention. Then she tipped the contents of the pitcher into my lap. Between my legs the waters mixed, cold and warm.“God loves purity,” the Reverend said. “Each kind with its own, no mixtures. Purity is perfection. Like attracts like.
Helmut Bauer confessed that he kept wine in his larder. And so the sins leaped into the Reverend’s net as one sinner after another broke down.
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