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Pujals-Esteban_ed_La-Lengua-Radical_Editorial-Gramma_1992

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*<br />

She is unfinish<strong>ed</strong>. She is structurally out-of-breath. When she comes<br />

close to something achiev<strong>ed</strong>, she enters a low and constant warning buzz.<br />

On Sunday, in the middle of her exercices, she begins to cry quite<br />

unexpect<strong>ed</strong>ly. The fourth comer loose, unanchor<strong>ed</strong>, unattend<strong>ed</strong>. She<br />

can't seem to st,op.<br />

*<br />

The dream begins this way:<br />

He is siuing with this younger, dark-hair<strong>ed</strong>, smart-mouth<strong>ed</strong> woman who,<br />

when 1 come up to them, is uuerly indifferent to me and will not<br />

acknowl<strong>ed</strong>ge me with any eye-contact. David and 1 have been in the<br />

concert hall where Karl has brought us, listening faithfully to a complicat<strong>ed</strong><br />

and somewhat chaotic concert of "new music". The concert takes place<br />

in a large tent, fill<strong>ed</strong> with people. Karl has grown restless and has<br />

disappear<strong>ed</strong>. When the performance is over we go to look for him and find<br />

him laughing and talking with the other woman. They are siuing on metal<br />

fold-up chairs, completely apart from any of the other people in the<br />

audience. Iris cold. 1 notice that he has done exactly what he wants, while<br />

1 have remain<strong>ed</strong> where he brought me. 1 slide up to him playfully, as if to<br />

third base after making a hit. "You are siuing with someone beautiful",<br />

1 say in a playful mood of acknowl<strong>ed</strong>gement. He is neutral. She avoids<br />

me.<br />

Dark purple iris, along green curving leaves and stem. Tangerine.<br />

*<br />

She wakes up in historie time. Low-grade hysteria. Abandon<strong>ed</strong> feelings<br />

from the dream, as real as if this had really been happening just now­<br />

"There is a world / underneath, or / on top o/, ... she likes the way the<br />

comma makes a pause before the lurch of oro<br />

and it' s here, now.<br />

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*<br />

Está inacabada. Está estructuralmente sin aliento. Al acercarse a la<br />

consumación de algo, la posee un zumbido de alerta, grave y constante.<br />

El domingo, haciendo sus ejercicios, se pone súbitamente a llorar. <strong>La</strong><br />

cuarta esquina, desanclada, suelta, desatendida. No se pu<strong>ed</strong>e contener.<br />

*<br />

El sueño empieza así:<br />

Él está sentado junto a una morena más joven de hermosos labios, quien,<br />

al acercarme, se muestra indiferente totalmente a mi presencia y ni<br />

siquiera me mira. David y yo hemos estado en el auditorio, adonde Karl<br />

noS ha traído, escuchando fielmente un concierto un tanto complicado y<br />

caótico de "nueva música". El concierto tiene lugar bajo una gran carpa<br />

llena de gente. Progresivamente inquieto, Karl ha desaparecido. Al<br />

terminar la función lo buscamos y lo encontramos hablando y riendo con<br />

la otra mujer. Están sentados en sillas plegables de metal, apartados del<br />

resto de los asistentes. Hace frío. Me doy cuenta de que él ha hecho<br />

exactamente lo que ha querido, mientras que yo me he qu<strong>ed</strong>ado en el lugar<br />

al que él me ha traído. Me deslizo hacia él juguetonamente, como<br />

volviendo al punto de partida después de marcar un tanto. "Estás con una<br />

mujer muy hermosa", digo en tono desenfadado de reconocimiento. Él se<br />

muestra neutral. Ella me evita.<br />

Iris color morado oscuro, tallo y hojas verdes, largos, sinuosos, Mandarina.<br />

*<br />

Ella despierta al tiempo histórico. Histeria barata. Sensación de abandono<br />

proc<strong>ed</strong>ente del sueño, real como si de verdad hubiese estado ocurriendo<br />

ahora mismo-Hay un mundo / debajo, o / encima de" .. .le gusta cómo<br />

pausa la coma antes del bandazo de O.<br />

y está aquí, ahora.<br />

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