invidiousness

INVIDIOUS
i got a hold of irene lozano's essay "lenguas en guerra" and brought it to one of those shacks cafe-restau and had a salad and omelette. i came upon a word that seemed to be the spanish equivalent of invidiousness. i put the paper in my pocket and walked back to the house. after careful consideration i decided to leave the hat behind, and also all of my luggage. one of those cars with guys hanging out the window slammed its breaks and i jumped in and waited for them to repeat the same for anyone else headed in that direction. bamilike women are short-tempered and ruthless hagglers. one in our bus was heavily abusing the candied ginger girls and punched one of the motoboys. they had changed the venue of the meeting to a place i didn't know. someone told me that the bar could be found at "ferrouche"

there is no such things as street names here, only landmarks that everyone agrees upon that are representative of a street or neighborhood. in douala there is a marche rond point and also a ferrouche, because there's a roundabout where people occasionally hang out and sell bread so it became a taxi drop. bafoussam has carrefour madelone, which is the name of a pharmacy visible from the main street. after i arrived, without paying anyone who directed me, i was told that ferrouche is a mispronunciation of "fare rouge," red lamp, or the extinguished one of two traffic signals found in the city.

i went into the market and sent around word that i was looking for any book by claude lévi strauss, which people took to mean that i wanted to buy dress shirts and pants. i have recently taking to tell people that we're not going to meme pas discuter if you want to start with such a ridiculous price. some are not willing to believe that a white person should pay less than five times the actual price and refuse to bargain more on principle, and some will take notice and cut their first price in half, so that we can get to three times the actual price and work from there. murphy's law of haggling: you will never pay a fair price for something you want. i decided to leave the meeting abruptly and left my article behind. today it's no longer available for download.

the chargeur decided to sit with one leg inside the window, and the other leg and the rest of his body outside, going over speed bumps on the wrong side of the road at a speed that couldn't be right. the venality code of honor: if the sign advising you of an official's authority is rusted, if the policeman's coat is frayed and depicts an american sports club, if the observation post is made out of a material that decays every two years, you can bribe. if it is a woman or the official looks like he receives salary regularly, you may be able to believe what they are saying.