...do, hide, so that I could come to understand a lot ofthings. From now on, all I have to do is to come here, in the dark, and think about them. And I have so much to think about and I'm missing so many years. I think today what I wanted to do was recall this past year. And that's...

...in the previous twelve central chapters, symbolic of the twelve months of the year. The boy thinks, "I needed to isolate myself in order to understand...I'll have to come here to remember all the others." The fragmented structure of Rivera's novel has led some critics (Daniel P. Testa and Juan Rodriguez,...

...hide, so that I could come to understand a lot of things. From now on, all I have to do is to come here, in the dark, and think about them. And I have so much to think about and I'm missing so many years. I think today what I wanted to do was recall this past year. And that 's...