El Gato Negro is a coffee shop/used bookstore. The book is a chronicle of travelers going across the wilds of Nicaragua in the late 1800s. It's full of phrases like "The soul of progress is to-day restless to bring about the wonder; the new world of Central America is about to appear, and the wonder that will come with the new century will break the continent and tend to draw into closer brotherhood the races of mankind." I only wish that were true.
That, and the author's name is Hezekiah Butterworth for crying out loud! It's the perfect name for one of those almost dangerously naive Victorian explorers. The kind that said 'I was the first to see the x' when there's a whole crowd of nonplussed natives standing around wondering what he's going on about. Yeah, it's just an x, but it's quite the entertaining read.
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