Friday 56 & #BookBeginnings: May Day Eve

For Book Beginnings:

The elder Monzon was waiting for his wife to speak. [..] She was a handsome, well-preserved woman and, her husband was thinking, a great deal more clever than she allowed herself to appear. 
- p. 1, from the short story "Three Generations"

For Friday 56:  

But he had loved to be talked about, thought Currito. He had loved to swagger and to be held in horror by the public and to be considered quite a devil.

- p. 56, from the short story "The Legend of the Dying Wanton"

Check out my review of May Day Eve and Other Stories by Nick Joaquin

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