Analect 2.324x

6 August 2008. Calm gray morning sky, woman on wide green field bending over bouncy black dog. All else still.

Note from Andrea. Sameer Makarius--his book of photographs--Buenos Aires y Su Gente--all from the 1950s. A recent immigrant from Cairo, Laica in hand, the city revealing itself to him in all ways--de nuevo--grainy black and white rotogravure street vendors, an awkward billboard, truco by the docks. Smell of an impromptu parilla--chorizo, morsilla--on stone-curbed side street. Figure in slouch hat, wide belt--los tipos viejos--del pasado...

Medio-porteño, dices. Posible, boludo. Pero medio-criollo también...