page 123, line 5: "polished one year and varnished two years later—that had naked women..."

"My sister and I were attracted by the jackets of my father's books—those he himself placed in two wooden bookcases my mother would have polished one year and varnished two years later—that had naked women with daggers buried deep in their ample breasts."


from "Rough Portrait" by Bárbara Jacobs, translated by David Unger in WRITING ON THE EDGE: a borderlands reader
page 123, line 5 in the closest book at hand