Carlos Alberto Machado - Estórias Açorianas

Oh Neighbor, so what's going on with our Ophelia? (Author's note 1: not to be confused with that crazy woman from the Elizabethan play who drowned in a lake while singing). Oh Neighbor, how should I know?! (Author's note 2: nowadays, as is well known, oracles, prophetesses, and witches have fallen out of fashion: for gossip and the like, one watches TV, reads tabloids, peeks at some blogs, and browses "social networks"...) I have time for that, Mr. Author! (Author's note 3: this is not some erudite reference to Pirandellian theater, it's just that I'm right in the middle of the Neighbors writing this...).

[from The Secret Life of Words]