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During my life in Pamplona, my brother Ricardo imparted his enthusiasm for two stories to me. These were _Robinson Crusoe_ and Jules Verne's _The Mysterious Island_, or rather, I should say they were _The Mysterious Island_ and _Robinson Crusoe_, because we preferred Jules Verne's tale greatly to Defoe's.
We would dream about desert islands, about manufacturing electric batteries in the fashion of the engineer Cyrus Harding, and as we were not very certain of finding any "Granite House" during the course of our adventures, Ricardo would paint and paint at plans and elevations of houses which we hoped to construct in its place in those far-off, savage lands.