Tom and Barry’s Book Club: Encantadas

“For, often in scenes of social merriment, and especially at revels held by candlelight in old-fashioned mansions, so that shadows are thrown into the further recesses of an angular and spacious room, making them pit on a look of haunted undergrowth of lonely woods, I have drawn the attention of my comrades bny my fixed gaze and sudden change of air, as I have seemed to see, slowly emerging from those imagined solitudes, and heavily crawling along the floor, the ghost of a gigantic tortoise, with ‘Memento’ burning in live letters upon his back. “