ISP Blog #6 - Murderer's Eggs

Here is another story from the "Gifts of Travel" collection, and another piece that gives us a recipe as the finale. An important part of this piece is the use of phrases from a foreign language, in this case Spanish. Towards the beginning of the piece, there is a character that emerges from a fog bank at night. He first appears as a silhouette carrying a gun with a dog beside him, and when he calls out to the author, using the original Spanish adds to the mystic this character already has and makes him appear slightly more threatening. As well as, it also contributes to the authenticity of the story.

I wanted to use foreign phrases like this in my original piece, and so included some Italian in the train section, when the conductor asks for "bigliettos," or "tickets." I think I used the phrase effectively, as I tried to juxtapose the lovely sound of the Romance languages with the sometimes less than pleasant noise of Asian/Chinese languages.