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Sunday Anguish 31 Dec 2009 | 01:41 pm
On Sundays, in the late afternoon, I feel a recurring unease. It begins with a slight, imperceptible tingling in the stomach, then a heaviness in the arms, and finally a tightness in the chest and a...
Life of Sisyphus – Part Nine 12 Dec 2009 | 08:47 am
So one begins to get old, she thinks, when we are given to remembering the past. The past is a dangerous thing when we let it stead the prominence of our lives. It is always present, determining our a...
Life of Sisyphus – Part Nine 12 Dec 2009 | 03:47 am
So one begins to get old, she thinks, when we are given to remembering the past. The past is a dangerous thing when we let it stead the prominence of our lives. It is always present, determining our a...
Life of Sisyphus – Part Eight 29 Oct 2009 | 06:04 pm
The car passes without stopping and she turns her eyes straight ahead, to the deserted road. She begins to raise her arm to look at her watch, but stops herself. Knowing what time it is will only ma...
Daily miseries – Part 2 24 Oct 2009 | 05:39 am
You lend something to a friend. This time you do not forget who it is. Time passes and he doesn’t return it. Trusting, you decide to wait a little longer as, after all, it is a friend. Time passes and...
Daily miseries – Part 1 25 Sep 2009 | 09:58 am
You have a difficult day. While fighting so many problems without solutions, a friend comes to ask to borrow some object, maybe a tool. You return to domestic chaos and in a little while forget to w...
Adiós, Roberto! 8 Sep 2009 | 11:44 am
He knocked on my door when the Brazilian soap opera was starting. He was sweating, after climbing several flights of stairs with his bike in tow. “I’m going to Spain,” he cried, by way of greeting. ...
Life of Sisyphus – part seven 30 Jun 2009 | 06:15 pm
She comes to the road that connects the neighborhood with the city and stops in the usual place. Despite all her precautions she’s started to sweat again. The cloudless sky and the absence of a breeze...
Life of Sisyphus – part seven 30 Jun 2009 | 02:15 pm
She comes to the road that connects the neighborhood with the city and stops in the usual place. Despite all her precautions she’s started to sweat again. The cloudless sky and the absence of a breeze...
Life of Sisyphus – Part Six 8 Jun 2009 | 06:19 am
She walks slowly towards the exit of the neighborhood. The sun burns. Her skin suffers from the accumulation of lesions. In the mornings she looks in the mirror and discovers a new spot, small wrin...
