In Buenos Aires' Chacarita Cemetery 30 years ago Don Tomas set up business as a professional valedictorian of the dead. Of his red-eyed clients he asked only the name, nationality and business of the deceased. Then he would step to the head of the newly turned grave and deliver eulogies of any desired length. He had practiced, he boasted, ten years to give his voice the correct hollowness of tone. When funeral fashions changed, and speeches gave way to flowers, Don Tomas tried vainly to meet the competition. He pared his rates...
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