The storyteller recounts a Christmas Eve he spent alone with a Rio housewife when he was 17. With the distance of time and maturity, he still struggles to come to terms with a conversation he had with her as his younger self, when he found her perplexing, enigmatic, yet unexpectedly beautiful. From "Missa do Galo" by Machado de Assis, translation from Portuguese by Todd Conner. Thanks for audience participation of Gabriel Baccarini, Alex Dmitriev, Raoni Lourenço, Paola Romangnani, and Dan Simon. Recorded at The Players Club, NYC.
