10:30pm
Un cuento que Manolo escribió para AE, un fanzine que se edita en París. (01-06-2005)
It’s getting colder
It’s
getting colder Beautiful Amanda is Don’t talk about that, hang on
for a second.
Hang on
for a second:
I’m
lying on the sofa, a streetlamp reflected on the blue wall in front
of my house, putting my living-room between brackets, so to speak. I
was saying Beautiful Amanda is; but no. I’m napping legs under a
blanket, that’s it; napping or plainly sleeping: it’s half past
ten pm. Not sleeping-sleeping: I’m aware of the blue light, if
only. Then, say no more, beautiful Amanda,
Of course
not: street noises, that’s it: steps among the puddles, rustling
anoraks, throats expelling air; this is hopeless. The neon sign,
that’s that: reflected on the blue wall too, each letter cyclically
–because I know them to be letters, otherwise it’s just changes
on the blue wall, zone by zone sequential unspecified changes. How do
I even know the streetlamp; I remember, of course. If I didn’t, the
blue wall shining and beating along a horizontal line would be enough
-therefore it’d be enough; and therefore I’d be merely napping or
sleeping-sleeping; but no: it is the streetlamp through the bracketed
living room, the bracketing streetlamp, then, yes. How do I know. I
merely; if I were to move my legs from beneath the blanket, go look
through the window, the streetlamp, the neon sign letter by letter
then I’d know and then, cascading, the puddles the anoraks and
whatnot, beautiful Amanda even I may. But no, I’ve left my glasses
somewhere on the sofa, of course not: I don’t remember the glasses
as such, not even merely, an unspecified reverberation over the
blanket, a non-propositional something a force field connected to my
knee as it were: move your knee and you’ll break your glasses.
Wait, non-propositional: move it then crack, or even a reverberating
don’t move; this is hopeless. Not even remembering this time, then,
merely a non-propositional link between my knee and some probability
distribution on the blanket and the sofa. Don’t move. If you wish,
wiggle your toe, of course; or think, that’s movement too, if only,
as if. Probability distribution of my glasses over the sofa, then
drops sharply to zero in the edge of the sofa, but that’d be. A
bland overflow of my glasses beyond the sofa on to the corner behind,
that’s better. Wait, what better, that’d be, instead; that’s
it: that’d be instead. Not the glasses, the force field, the
reverberating non-propositional something, but it’s so the glasses
themselves blandly reaching for the corner, intenting the corner,
long arms caressing ever so slightly the corner of the living-room
behind me and the sofa, lenses forcing perspectives; this is
programmatic
The
corner of the living room-behind me and the sofa. If I stood up
somehow, went to see it with my very eyes, as if. No question, of
course, but the shadow, the laws of perspective, the sad sad sad
trihedron and there we are: the corner of the living room in all its
–not all, merely some of its. There’s no fact of the matter as to
how much of its is all of its; it could be thought of as a
calculus couldn’t it baby. Whom, wait, Amanda the beautiful, but no
way, no, wait. No corner behind me and the sofa: I have this
suspicion of glasses on the blanket and if I move then. It’s
getting colder, that’s a fact.
“Glory”,
was it so difficult.
The
puddles downstairs too. Downstairs? and downstairs? how
dare I, down and stairs as if. Not even the corner behind me and the
sofa and I might, “downstairs”, I wonder, but my right sock is
soaked, it was through the boot or who knows –no, not “know”,
nobody, who. Anyway, a reverberating link between my right foot and
the puddle downstairs, and the same reverberating link between
my right foot and the basin or is it: so much for topology in this
particular case if you know what I mean, or rather. Wiggle your toe,
then, and then the puddle the basin, unexpectedly, steps between the
puddles and me reverberating the whatever it is, and, well,
“reverberating” don’t take my word: “glowing”, the
well-known set of metaphors each with its own bias opinion idea,
reverberate something maybe but try glowing it and nevertheless
the chair by the sofa, the cracking junctures,
that’s it, as if moving, as if I were sitting on it, and I was,
sometime: therefore the cracking junctures; moving knees when
related to the chair harks back to the junctures and when
related to the blanket reverberates my glasses, cracking chair
and cracking glasses and the cracking anorak on the chair if we are
to maintain the minimum coherence but can we? The anorak on the chair
a blue something on the left but the blue wall as well and the
reverberation of the anorak rustling Is it
the pulsating featureless whatever of the neon lights against the
wall? I am aware of the latter, am I of the former. “Aware” which
means, too late for that already after this few. Cracking then, the
knees and the junctures, the glasses –wait.
“Remarks”
that’s it. The window. If I were to look, not even stand up, merely
neck to one side, the blue anorak, chair, stove and then the window,
the rotating neck and the subsequent cracking of glasses, anorak,
chair and then the window. Is it open then? Street noises, that’s
for sure. A reverberating don’t move, but this suspicion of glasses
and the cracking junctures and it’s getting colder that’s a fact
the window’s broken.
Then
obviously the floor, the pieces of glass, steps between puddles,
steps on them like on puddles, the soaked sock or is it. Another
link, so much for topology, the puddle the basin the pieces of glass
and then a shape-background translation to the window, frozen air
passing through, throats expelling wasn’t it. Air this is all so
evident it’s hardly worth mentioning, if I’m even. Throats
expelling air then, keep that for a second. Don’t move, of course,
your knee connected to your glasses on the sofa and the glasses
reaching for the corner behind and the web between your sock and
puddle basin glasses, but it’s half past ten, either you are
sleeping or you better. Move then, wiggle something or rather. It has
to be done: move.
Any
movement would do: knee then glasses and then corner and the rotating
neck beautiful Amanda arms reaching for the corner caressing and then
puddle that is pieces of glass and a soaked sock and beautiful Amanda
on the corner, and the puddles, trihedron sad sad sad beautiful
Amanda soaked on the floor basin window throat, it all unfolds if I
ever get up.
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