Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a
lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind's creations (trucks, swords, zeroes)
are all characters in The Teeth of the Comb. They aspire, they plot,
they hope, they destroy, they fail, they love. These wonderful small
stories animate new realities and make us see our reality anew. Reading
Alomar's sly moral fables and sharp political allegories, the reader
always sits up a little straighter, and a little wiser. Here is the
title story:
Some of the teeth of the comb were envious of the class differences
that exist between humans. They strived desperately to increase their
height, and, when they succeeded, began to look with disdain on their
colleagues below.
After a little while the comb's owner felt a desire to comb his hair.
But when he found the comb in this state he threw it in the garbage.