Monday, August 29, 2011

Where at the El Salvadorian restaurant, Tu Casa, a man with a copy of The Gospel According to Matthew on his table can barely conceal his delight in talking to the family of "out of towners" at the next table, but when he explains to the four year old boy (whose middle name happens to be "Darwin") that "It is a Christian idea that we don't come from monkeys" and the boy responds in a loud incredulous voice, "How did you even learn ENGLISH?!" the man's eagerness flickers and seems to give way to confusion.