around for between thirty to fifty in the capital of Chile, more specifically in the neighborhood starting Slaughterhouse there for 10 July, a formidable woman of the night market and clandestine pleasure, remembered for posterity by the name of 'art' of sex workers: the Loca Marion.
This mythical prostitute, which some remember as a beautiful slender woman and others as a crude fat corpulent (perhaps the same, in two stages of his hard life) was a symbol of the neighborhood, getting to be very popular between residents and customers. Ghostly walking by the area known as The Alley , there around July 10 and a street named after turer (or Licantén), currently Ricaurte, neighborhood we promise make a future posting of text, especially dedicated to its history "red."
was neighborhood of brothels, gambling dens, brothels and informal recreational estates, of which the Marion Loca part in the nocturnal landscape, wandering like a lost soul or a cat in heat looking for her next customer . Marion was his real name, apparently, and something crazy was, without doubt well enough to justify the call and recognize everyone. Their presence in the corners was a stumbling block to the neighborhood, and even made a few years yet there was talk of the Mad Marion as a character to scare children deserved punishment for not eating terrifying tormentors all dinner or not taking their medicines, as would the Cuckoo or Viejo del Saco. The crazy was thus almost a myth.
We found a valuable overview of memory makes the writer and reporter Raul Morales Alvarez, in his "Anthology of Selected Texts," which recalls the physical aspect of this real love Amazon easy:
"Mad Marion and was a tall woman, a female solid and brave as those of another age, a good partner for Catalina times that of Erauzo, the nun who was lieutenant. Her eyes were coal, lips in a perpetual supply, a geography round and opulent, made up of valleys and mountains, he burst into the chest happy, and owned the pleasant party of legs as an ax, which would have been envious Marlene Dietrich or Mistinguette, in the days and distant, hopelessly days old, he fell in love with them and won the affection fleeting Chevalier. Also, with his left eyebrow, and kissing her eyes, while laughing and your brand as houndstooth, the "Crazy" had a scar. "
This mark on the face is a distinctive detail that will bend in particular. It was not uncommon for prostitutes to show scars on his face, the body part most valuable and well kept, it was the way pimps, pimps and even pairs of these poor women were being punished when they thought it had played crooked , did not display submissive or simply when they caused some upset. Even some bad customers came to attack this perverse form if they felt cheated or ill-pleased. They say that other famous prostitutes Santiago, as later turned-runs its own network of brothels in the same years of Loca Marion, the famous aunt Lechuguino , also had a mark on her cheek, trying to cover up with cosmetics.
Ricaurte street corner, former "turer" (Image courtesy of Alan Bruna)
In the case of Marion Loca, the cut on the face was won by arguing with violent fat and administering the brothel where she danced and offered sexual services when younger. The boss tried to force her to take a client that was not to his liking but had a lot of money. She, however, had preferred a seedy gangster, according to Morales, "sold tortillas and boiled eggs at the corner of the Alley ". The discussion with the owner of the house of regrind ended with a cut on the face, but still the Loca Marion left that night with their favorite that will surely , was also her lover in those days.
But miserable and painful life had made this mark on his face was only little to the self-esteem Marion Loca, or rather a medal for his strong and decided character. She emerged from the night sometimes wearing long dresses with fur and trying vainly to mix the elegance and sensuality. The old neighborhood who managed to meet almost feel a privilege to make her memory.
Morales recalled that, at times, Marion Loca miserable rags also appeared wearing their clothes instead of aspiring glamorous, looking more like a homeless man who, despite everything, still struggling to try to look attractive.
"They were his friends," he writes poets dam in search of the morning and his excuse for a drink more than a few kind words, the robbers ambushed on the sidewalks, some police and pijes with pride some of the first key for a night out. The "Mad Marion" provided them with affection, sometimes money, and very rare in rare true love. Why? True dawn She told me: "Therefore I say La Loca, pus fool Because I'm going with who I ..."."
" was nothing more that the simple truth. I saw one night to leave the arm with a beautiful bum, a homeless torn all the way, a sort of shabby king beautiful, smelling of wine and dirt in his whole person well divorced from the water and soap, ignoring the banknotes of a English sailor who stormed to Santiago, the approach, with the sexual drive of the sailors who step on land after a long last day at sea, to learn from love and bottles, the world is round and moves. "
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Nobody knows precisely what happened with Marion Loca . Rondan several versions, most of them unreliable. The entry into the world of old age and the campaigns to close and destroy the famous brothels in this sector of Santiago, were withdrawing strength of the activated, turn off the last fuel of life.
Perhaps found Loca finally the man of her dreams, who knows. Disappeared there for the sixties with The Alley , as would a fragile memory. But this memory, surprisingly, was so steeped in old neighborhoods, becoming an urban legend about the past of these blocks Huamachuco July 10, the existence of which some were not even so sure.
never heard of it and has since rebuilt his imprint on the Loca fragments Marion, also remains captive in the legendary Santiago.
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