January, 1976 ("Calle República de Venezuela, near the Palacio de la Inquisición, Mexico City")
Pages: 143, 165, 184, 206, 224, 250, 281, 309, 374, 396, 421, 485, 586
Old poet. A contemporary of Octavio Paz and Cesarea Tinajero. Member of the Stridentist ("estridentistas") movement in the 1920's. Arturo and Ulises interview him about Cesarea. Amadeo also has the only evidence of Cesarea's poetry. The three share many drinks while Amadeo spins stories.
The Amadeo interviews bookend this section of the book.
January, 1976 ("Calle Leonardo da Vinci, Colonia Mixcoac, Mexico City")
Page(s): 145
May, 1976
Page(s): 166
January, 1976 ("Tlalpan, Mexico City")
Page(s): 148
May, 1976
Page(s): 172
March, 1977
Page(s): 217
April, 1976 ("editorial offices of the magazine La Chispa [The Spark], Calle Independencia and Luis Moya, Mexico City")
Page(s): 152
March, 1976 ("La Rama Dorada coffee shop, Colonia Coyoacán, Mexico City")
Page(s): 155
July, 1976 ("lawn party with lights in the grass at the Moore's house, more than twenty people, Colina Las Lomas, Mexico City")
Page(s): 173
March, 1979 ("a dark office, Colonia Coyoacán, Mexico City")
Page(s): 287
March, 1983 ("a dark study, Colonia Coyoacán, Mexico City")
Page(s): 384
April, 1976 ("Calle Pitágoras, Colonia Narvarte, Mexico City")
Page(s): 162
Alberto Moore called Luis Rosado to tell him that Luscious Skin had been killed. Alberto's sister, Julita, had been Luscious Skin's on-and-off-again lover since he had left Luis Rosado.
May, 1976 ("walking along Calle Madero, near Sanborn's, Mexico City")
Page(s): 164
May, 1976 ("in a rooftop room on Calle Tepeji, Mexico City")
Page(s): 170
Bi-sexual.
Luscious Skin was killed by police in a raid on a boarding house in February, 1984 (in Tlanepantla). Half his face was blown off.
July, 1976 ("Calle Colima, Colonia Condesa, Mexico City")
Page(s): 177
April, 1979
Page(s): 291
August, 1976 ("Walking along the Calzada del Cerro, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City")
Page(s): 180
The father of Stridentism
"...boys, this was what Manuel Maples Arce's prose was like, hurtling and incendiary, full of words that got us hot and bothered, prose that might not mean anything to you now, but that in its day captivated generals of the Revolution, stalwart men who had seen death and who had killed and who when they read or heard Manuel's words were stopped in their tracks, stopped cold, as if to say what the hell is this, prose that promised poetry like the sea, the sea in the skies of Mexico."
-Amadeo Savatierra (p.225)
Wikipedia article for Manuel Maples Arce
September, 1976 ("in a room at the Hotel Los Claveles, Avenida Niño Perdido and Juan de Dios Peza, Mexico City")
Page(s): 181
March, 1981 ("in her kitchenm Jackson Street, San Diego, California")
Page(s): 340
October, 1982 ("in the kitchen of her house, Jackson Street, San Diego, California")
Page(s): 365
October, 1976 ("Calle Colima, Colonia Condesa, Mexico City")
Page(s): 185
January, 1977 ("El Reposo Mental Health Clinic")
Page(s): 207
March, 1979
Page(s): 285
April, 1980
Page(s): 316
March, 1983 ("psychiatric hospital La Fortaleza, Tlanepantla, Mexico City")
Page(s): 379
September, 1985
Page(s): 388
August, 1987 ("Calle Colima, Colonia Condesa, Mexico City")
Page(s): 400
November, 1976 ("Café Quito, Calle Bucareli, Mexico City")
Page(s): 186
March, 1979
Page(s): 286
July, 1982
Page(s): 361
September, 1985
Page(s): 387
December, 1976 ("Calle Colima, Colonia Condesa, Mexico City")
Page(s): 191
February, 1981 ("Calle Montes, near the Monumento a la Revolución")
Page(s): 333
December, 1976 ("Faculty of Literature, UNAM, Mexico City")
Page(s): 195
Self-described "mother of Mexican poetry." From Uruguay, came to Mexico City in roughly 1965 (she's not 100% on this). First met Arturo when he was sixteen years old.
February, 1977 ("walking on a university campus in the American Midwest")
Page(s): 209
March, 1977 ("Calle Comercio, in front of Jardín Morelos, Colonia Escandón, Mexico City")
Page(s): 211
January, 1980 ("pulquería La Saeta Mexicana, near La Villa, Mexico City")
Page(s): 314
May, 1977 ("Café Quito, Calle Bucareli, Mexico City")
Page(s): 221
March, 1981 ("sitting in his living room, Jackson Street, San Diego, California")
Page(s): 339
September, 1982 ("in the bathroom of his house, Jackson Street, San Diego, California")
Page(s): 339
May, 1977 ("Bar Céntrico, Calle Tallers, Barcelona")
Page(s): 228
January, 1978
Page(s): 252
October, 1991 ("sitting on a bench in Plaza Martorell, Barcelona")
Page(s): 447
September, 1995 ("Bar Céntrico, Calle Tallers, Barcelona")
Page(s): 526
July, 1977 ("Rue des Petites Écuries, Paris")
Page(s): 228
September, 1977
Page(s): 243, 245
August, 1977 ("Avenue Marcel Proust, Paris")
Page(s): 236
September, 1977 ("Rue de Passy, Paris")
Page(s): 240
September, 1977 ("sitting in the Jardins du Trocadero, Paris")
Page(s): 244
January, 1978 ("Rue de Téhéran, Paris")
Page(s): 246
January, 1978 ("Sutherland Place, London")
Page(s): 253
December, 1978 ("Bar Chez Raoul, Port-Vendres, France")
Page(s): 269
October, 1979 ("sitting on a bench in Edith Wolfson Park, Tel Aviv")
Page(s): 297
May, 1980 ("in bed in his attic apartment on the Stuckgasse, Vienna")
Page(s): 318
March, 1981 ("Café Quito, Avenida Bucareli, Mexico City")
Page(s): 343
April, 1981 ("with a female friend and two male friends, International Departures, Mexico City DF airport")
Page(s): 345
Great-granddaughter of Tolstoy.
June, 1981 ("Calle Toledo, Mexico City")
Page(s): 346
May, 1982 ("having a beer ar the bar La Mala Senda, Calle Pensador Mexicano, Mexico City")
Page(s): 349
January, 1984 ("near the Monumento a la Revolución, Mexico City)
Page(s): 381
January, 1986
Page(s): 391
December 1988 ("Bar El Cuerno de Oro, Calle Avenir, Barcelona)
Page(s): 406