Your Bruise Is My Bed, My Avarice Your Hearty Meal At Dusk
The story of the feud:
Mario married his first cousin Patricia, with whom he has three children. But Mario strayed. He fell in love with a beautiful Swedish air stewardess whom he met while travelling. He left his wife and moved to Stockholm.
Distraught, his wife Patricia went to see her husband's best friend, Gabriel. After discussing the matter with his wife, Mercedes, he advised Patricia to divorce Mario. And then he consoled her. No one else quite knows what form this consolation took.
According to sources close to the Colombian, he told her that "she should leave her husband, if he returned," Saldivar writes.
Other sources close to the Peruvian say that on the same night, Marquez committed the worst (or best) kind of treason towards his friend Vargas Llosa. But eventually Mario returned to his wife, who told him of Gabriel's advice to her, and of his consolation.
This happens to the best of people. Joey & Johnny Ramone, George Harrison & Eric Clapton, Jennifer & Gwyneth; no one is safe.
