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Context for the nerds
This is bamboo erasure
That’s a grass, tho
And Cinnamon too
i didn’t even know this thing grew all the way south in argentina.
Can we throw in a plot point that the chemicals in the wood treatment cause him to hallucinate that he’s seeing the ghost of Juan Perón?
My partner says this fits the vibe of many Argentinian short stories she reads.
Is the joke that it’s The Gnaw and it’s like that post-Stalin story called The Thaw?
I assumed it was a joke about eating (metaphorically) the economy, that is gnawing away at the foundations of the country (not sure where the marriage comes in in this metaphor though)
but I didn’t catch the The Thaw wordplay, so that might be playing a role too, I’m not familiar with that book
You’re definitely right, I was just speculating on some of the specific execution (notably including the marriage, though in The Thaw I believe it was a tyrannical husband (Stalin) dying).
He’s an app developer, you say?
