Book 2, From This Side: Chapters 37, 98, 38, 39, 86, 78, 40, 59, 41 Summary

With Chapter 37, the setting changes to Buenos Aires. Manolo Traveler works with a circus in Buenos Aires, managing a counting cat. He is married to Talita, a former pharmacist. Traveler has never been out of the country and lobbies his manager, Ferraguto, to send the troupe farther afield. Ferraguto refuses. Talita has the manager's wife, Cuca, over to gossip and lets Traveler sit in the toilet and listen, biting down a handkerchief to stifle his laughter.

In Chapter 98, Horacio considers how La Maga has affected him with out knowing it, destroying his faith in his own reason. Maga is a different sort of person from Horacio, he now understands, who does not need to justify her actions. In Chapter 38, Traveler and Talita go to docks to meet Horacio's boat. They go to a waterfront grill...