excerpt

“Did I catch you at a bad time?” he asked?
“No, just finishing my walk. What’s up?” Eteo asked.
“Come extra early to the office tomorrow. I want to see you right
at the opening. Or better, before the opening.”
“Why? What’s happened?”
“Don’t ask. ere’re meeting as we speak; soon as I hear something
new I’ll call you. However come very early, before the opening,
ok? ” Herb insisted.
“Damn it, I haven’t gotten up that early in years. But I’ll see you
before the opening, as you ask,” Eteo reassured him.

He feels something tight around him. It is a cradle in which he is
lying comfortably and at the same time all squeezed together in one
piece, an elongated shape of a human being held together by clothes
and wrappings that keep him straight and on his back. His eyes discern
a ceiling made of pieces of wood laid next to one another and
on top of them rows of cane that keep the soil roof from falling into
the room. He is swaddled, yes, held together by two sticks of wood
and baby clothes around him from the shoulders all the way down
to his toes. He begins to feel uneasy. The wooden pieces of the ceiling
are full of cobwebs and other decaying things he cannot recognize.
Then the beautiful face of his mother appears above him, a protecting
angel with a faint smile and soft hands who undoes his swaddles,
and as soon as he is free and the air of the room touches his free
skin, he pees, his urine arching over his legs and wetting the bed sheets,
to the delight of his mother, who laughs as she complains that
he has wet his bed. The sudden freedom of his arms and legs prompts
him to move them in every direction, with the same sense of freedom
as a yearling, his arms and legs moving aimlessly, trying to slice the
air in pieces, to gesture at his mother’s smile. His legs go in every possible
direction as if he wants to run out of the house toward the small
hill and run up and down like a young lamb or as if he wants to just
get up and lead a bunch of others to dance the Cretan pentozalis.
Then comes the giggle of a happy, playful baby…

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