![]() ![]() However, “for all his diligence” Brother Juniper is never able to understand the “central passions” that motivated each of his subjects. In order to do so, he investigates the lives of all the victims, recording even the most trivial facts in an enormous book, which he hopes will eventually help him understand why God allowed the bridge collapse to happen. Especially interested is a friar named Brother Juniper, who witnesses the bridge collapse and afterwards becomes obsessed with proving that the disaster was a justified act of God. This unprecedented evet becomes a communal touchstone for the Limean population, which can’t fathom why such a catastrophe would occur. On July 20, 1714, an important bridge outside Lima, Peru, collapses without warning, plunging five travelers to their instant deaths. ![]()
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