Don't rush Trafalgar Medrano when he starts telling you about his latest intergalactic sales trip. He likes to stretch things out over precisely seven coffees. No one knows whether he actu-ally travels to the stars, but he tells the best tall tales in the city, so why doubt him? By the light of the chaste electronic moon—The sense of the circle—Of navigators—The best day of the year—The González family's fight for a better world — — Interval with my aunts. Trafalgar and Josefina. — End of the interval—Mr. Chaos—Constancia—Strelitzias, Lagerstroemias, and Gypsophila—Trafalgar and I