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That is but one small example of the huge<br />
difference in ideas and<br />
opinions that existed between the<br />
representatives of these two very<br />
different cultures, a gulf that made it<br />
impossible for the Browns to<br />
feel any desire to learn about the customs<br />
and traditions of Morning<br />
Light.<br />
, UNE more deeply. Eyes closed, she saw<br />
herself beside Nancha on the<br />
kitchen floor making corn tortillas; she saw<br />
the pan where the most<br />
delicious casserole was cooking, and next to<br />
it, the beans just coming<br />
to a boil . . . not even hesitating, she decided<br />
to go see who was<br />
cooking. It couldn't be Katy. The person<br />
who produced this kind of<br />
smell really knew how to cook. Never having<br />
laid eyes on her, Tita<br />
felt she knew this person, whoever she was.<br />
She strode across the patio and opened the<br />
door; there she met a<br />
pleasant woman around eighty years old.<br />
She looked a lot like Nancha. A thick braid<br />
was wound around her head,<br />
and she was wiping the sweat from her brow<br />
with her apron.<br />
Her features were plainly Indian.<br />
She was making tea in an earthenware pan.<br />
She looked up and smiled kindly, inviting Tita<br />
to sit down next to<br />
her.<br />
Tita did so. The woman immediately offered<br />
her a cup of the delicious<br />
tea.<br />
Tita sipped it slowly, drawing maximum<br />
pleasure from the aroma of the<br />
herbs, familiar and mysterious.<br />
How welcome its warmth and flavor!<br />
She stayed with the woman for a little while.<br />
The woman didn't speak<br />
either, but it wasn't necessary. From the<br />
first, they had established<br />
a communication that went far beyond<br />
words.<br />
From then on, Tita had visited her there<br />
every day.<br />
But gradually, Dr. Brown began to appear<br />
instead of the woman.<br />
The first time this happened it had surprised<br />
her -she wasn't expecting<br />
to see him there, nor the changes he had<br />
made in the room's<br />
furnishings.<br />
Now the room contained many pieces of<br />
scientific equipment, test tubes,<br />
lamps, thermometers, and so on.<br />
The little stove no longer occupied a central<br />
place; Years passed<br />
before they began to discover a bit of the<br />
culture of "the Kikapu,"<br />
when John's great-grandfather, Peter, was<br />
very sick with a lung<br />
disease. His face was constantly purple from<br />
his fits of coughing.<br />
He wasn't getting enough air. His wife Mary<br />
knew something about<br />
medicine, since her father was a doctor; she<br />
knew that in cases like<br />
his, the body of the sick person is producing<br />
too many red blood cells,<br />
so it is advisable to perform a bleeding to<br />
counter this imbalance and<br />
prevent this excess of blood cells from<br />
causing an infarction or a
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