Gustavo and Nina were now lovers of six days. The jungle, dealt with on its own terms, accepted rather than struggled against,romance. The danger with the viper that Nina had encountered was the rare exception that proved the Amazon rule :be ready for anything but especially passion. Though she may have felt that she owed him her life so she gave him her body in trade- that would have been an obvious explanation.But it was more than likely that the excitement and fascination came as each were fantasy figures from the culture of the other. The blonde gringa from the olive-skinned boy's TV Porn videotapes the chongos showed to warm men up for their painted ladies had certainly aroused his curiosity,and the liberated blonde European who nourished herself each night with her cultural fantasy for this land that included a handsome olive-skinned boy.It was a part of any good travel adventure:you fuck the culture to really get to know it. And with the desirable mystical airs of the jungle - and of course he had saved her life: sex was heightened by its racial distinctions.They came each night, in unison, a single-colored ecstasy.
They accepted it on its own terms.
Gustavo took Nina's hand to cross the bridge he had whipped up in a matter of minutes to cross the stream. The machete was an extension of his arm and seemed to be constantly in use; cutting vines that held water that was deliciously pure, notching off brush from the trail which was not well-defined, to mark it so that they could find their way back,cutting palm leaves from one kind of tree that were good for this and from another that looked identical to the girls but was chambira the only palm good for a whole littany of weaving tecniques that according to their expert, for which no other would serve. He cut the tagua nut, vegetable ivory, that had fallen from another palm near by and he made the girls notice that all the palms were different. That maybe in an hours walk you would find three trees that were the same. That the forest did not have groves of trees almost never.
The stream bed and then the ground under foot became rocky with small stones as they passed midday and they could hear off to the left a growing sound as they approached, that seemed recognizable to Dory.She tilted her head like a musician.
"There's a waterfall near here ?'
No," said Nate, just the wind through the trees,"I couldn't tell you anyway my ears are all blocked up with phlegm."
"Una cascada," Nina asked Gustavo.
"No," he replied, "el viento.
But as they reached a point in the trail where the sound for Dory was nearly unmistakable she noticed that some trees had been cut obstructing all who would attempt to venture in that direction. She could make out a set of deep wheel marks, like those you might find on a small wagon, through the brush in the rocky mud.
Gustavo chopped a wedge from a balsa wood tree and Nate did the explanation which after letting them feel the lightness of the wood and explaining how it would float so well if they ever neeeded a quick raft he tried to explain to them about toy wooden airplanes which apparently they were not familiar with. Until they had a long discussion in Dutch.
"Ja,"they finally said in unison, "Naturlich".
Suddenly Gustavo sniffed the air like a dog and motioned for everyone to crouch down in place silently. Nothing happened. Then they heard squealing and a thundering of hoofs on the ground and soon passing by not 5 feet from where they hid was a herd of peccary, wild boar, their teeth chattering and looking ferocious in such a large group.Their stench was now upon the humans and the girls held their noses.Then they were gone.
The dust and stench of the pecarry caused them to cough for several minutes after they had passed and as if to clean things off, the hot afternoon brought on a rainstorm, so common in the tropics when the heated earth's temperature floats up to the cooler temperature in the water-laden clouds above and because of the lower density of the cool materials overhead they fell as rain. The earth, in this convection effect, for now, would remain at a suitable temperature for all that lived and breathed in these forests.
Back in the cabin HCJV was playing loudly on the radio but there was no one to be seen . It was a sermon in Quechua, the indian language and Nate smiled understanding the name Paul and Romans.",Gustavo, " he called, get over here," and he talked over the Quechua in Spanish and then sermonized himself as if exulting in God's holy light, "For as through the disobedience of the one human, many were made sinners, thus also through the obedience of the one many were constituted righteous..uh...uh..in order that just as sin reigned in death, so also the grace reigned through rightgeousness unto everylasting life through Jesus Christ Our Lord. A-men."
He grabbed a beer from the the refrigerator and came back jubilant sucking it down."I have been saved and once your saved your always saved,Amen.I've got no worries because God is on my side. I mean there are christians and superchristians and I am a pentacostal superchristian born and bred and I know that his divine grace is acting on me today and everyday. Hallelujah. Sorry. You guys want beers."
"Yes please," said Dory, I thought you were Jewish.
"Why is that?"
"You know because you are fixed down there?"
"Another dick joke ?"
"No it's just-"
"Circumcision runs in my family and the modern thinking is or was you get it or don't according to what they did to your father- anything wrong with it?"
"No it is .. beautiful and I think gives me more pleasure"
You mean a clipped pencil dick gives you more pleasure how could that be?"and he laughed broadly and took her into his arms affectionately.
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