The Fantastic Flying Donkey and the Tattoo

Abstract

To begin, a list: strands of human hair; sculptures made of bread crumbs, fashioned by the inmates of the Asilo de Dementes de Cuba (Cuban Asylum for the Insane) (the fantastic flying donkey is among these); skull of a black man who died at the age of 109 in Santa Clara; wax mold of a breast that accidentally developed in a man who nursed a child for twenty-two months; fragment of a piece of skin, with a tattoo, belonging to a mulatto; colt revolver; dueling pistols; used bullets; paintings of ñáñigo processions; painting of the original Hippocratic Oath; six-week-old fetus; necklace of Santa Barbara; rosary; bell; maracas; drum; crucifix. These are 17 out of 177 items listed as the contents of the