Book 2; From This Side: Chapters 148, 42, 75, 43, 125, 44, 102, 45, 80, 46, 47, 110, 48 Summary

Chapter 148 is a quotation featuring Gabio Basso's analysis of the word "person," saying it initially meant mask. In Chapter 42, Traveler gets Horacio a job with the circus. They go out to celebrate at Don Crespo's. In Chapter 75, Horacio looks at his reflection in the mirror and recalls his younger days as a dapper intellectual in Buenos Aires. He laughs and draws over his face in the mirror with toothpaste. In Chapter 43, Talita and Horacio count money for the circus and Talita addresses the strain that his presence his causing her relationship. Traveler cannot sleep, and her presence causes some sort of tension between them. He wonders, if this is so, why Traveler got him a job working together. In Chapter 125, Horacio defends his new viewpoint of himself a man apart from mankind. In Chapter 44, Traveler...