CUBAN CHRONICLES
by Walter Lippmann
February 12, 2019
In these last days of my current 2-month visit, I engage in a mad dash of running around to stores to buy books and gifts for friends and family. Yesterday I went to one of the very best Cuban bookstore is in which everything is new and for sale in moneda nacional, the prices there are a ridiculous low for a person from United States. The stack of books you’re looking at in this picture, cost me slightly over $5.00 CUC for the entire stack.
Literally 135 Cuban pesos moneda nacional. The large format book at the bottom of which I bought to contain mental exercise to help people to maintain their mental agility as they age the three light blue covered books is a relationship manual, there is a book of Puerto Rican short stories, a book on the history of psychoanalysis in Cuba, and finally, the pleasure syndrome a history of pleasure in human sexuality.
A book of essays by the British author Oscar Wilde.
I suppose it if you read this book, and if you understand this book, and if you follow its instructions, and if you find yourself in a situation where this particular practice is called for, you should be able to perform the Heimlich maneuver.
Although each and every book in the shop has a barcode, when you go to pay for them, the clerk manually writes down the title, and the price, for inventory purposes. They have no cash registers, and of course they take no credit cards, even Cuban debit cards. The only places that accept those a debit cards from Cuban banks, are large shopping places such as ones that sell domestic products, stoves, washing machines, and such.
Originally posted to facebook February 12 at 10:56 PM
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