Book 1, From the Other Side: Chapters 6, 7, 8, 93, 68 Summary

In Chapter 6, Horacio and La Maga choose a place to meet for a "date." They always keep their meeting plans vague, leaving the option of missing each other. Still, they always run into each other, invariably. In Chapter 7, Horacio sketches La Maga in his mind. He kisses his memory, caresses it. In Chapter 8, he and La Maga go to see the fish for sale at the Quai de la Megisserie. It is a moment of pure happiness between them.

Chapter 93 is told from La Maga's point of view. She is reacting to Horacio's unwillingness to say that he loves her. He wants a love that opens the world to him, that answers the questions he cannot. Maga, feeling shut out by her lover, implores him to stop, forget Morelli's utopia and accept the...