No one writes to the...

No one writes to the currator: "Ancizar Vergara is curator of the house where Colombia's acclaimed Nobel-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born 75 years ago this month and which is now a museum. From his small, cheerless office, [he] watches the dusty almond trees lining a quiet back street. It is past noon on a bright, sultry day and the mail has not arrived. Declared a national monument after Garcia Marquez won the Nobel in 1982, the museum receives few visitors and survives mainly on charity. Vergara says he can't remember when he last received his monthly paycheck of $193 from the government. After years of isolation, Vergara is beginning to seem like one of Garcia Marquez's characters -- in particular, the retired officer in the novella "No One Writes to the Colonel" who waits 15 years for a pension check."