Postcard from New York: ¡ sácame San Francisco !
This guy in front of my laundromat reminded me of a Spanish joke that either my friend Juan or Pajaro told me:
A man goes to a famous sculptor and asks to become his apprentice. The sculptor gives the apprentice a block of marble and a chisel and says: ” ¡ Sácame San Francisco ! ” (transl.: Get me Saint Francis out of that piece of marble!) So the apprentice begins chiselling away. Days later, he’s still chiselling. Two weeks later he’s chiselled the block down to a rod as thin as a pencil. “But what is this? What are you doing? Are you crazy?” asked the sculptor. And the apprentice says, “Don’t worry, boss! If Saint Francis is in there, I’ll find him soon!”
And while we’re on the subject of Hispanophones, Viva Ecuador!
