Last day in Resistencia, Chaco. I had just finished the 15 th International Forum for the promotion of Books and Reading, organized by the Foundation Mempo Giardinelli, and VEGETAB in the hotel lobby, waiting we came to seek to bring to the airport, Angela Pradelli, Patricia Kolesnicov, Teresita Valdettaro, yo. Who else ..? We had planned to walk before the return currents but lacked power and too much heat. We went
us, writers and journalists, while politicians arrived at the hotel. I had read in the local paper that morning, about a meeting of some of the construction in which the marriage Duhalde participate. Fast reading and disinterested, I thought it was something of UOCRA or similar, when in fact it was the Church with some of the social construction.
Among the swarm of TV cameras and men Well right that inhabited the hotel, a lady approached us and as he got closer, I did, with incredible speed, a recognition on his face. I knew I had seen somewhere, and if I had seen somewhere had to have filed his face. The rest happened so fast, such things happen:
I thought, "Chiche Duhalde hell ..." and before he could ask me why I was tense and sour this gesture of school principal, came to our table, muttered something which of course did not understand and grabbed an ashtray.
Then I did what I usually do, my personal version of the facts relating my knowledge of the world had listened to what we do and what I had not heard, the reaction of others and inferences extras. And what came out was: "Chiche Duhalde should be against smoking in public places such as the hotel lobby and therefore angry, came to take out the ashtray, which is proof of the crime.
The problem is that As Chiche turned around with the ashtray in hand, my group erupted in laughter. And that was not the normal reaction to the situation I was imagining.
not only laughed, but congratulated Pradelli as if, in internal, had won in the first round.
Luckily I did not laugh more when all laugh, like that asshole that I did so many decades, and I ask what had happened Kolesnicov. I told it to me and recounted in digital Ñ, thus:
Pradelli Angela: "Go ahead, Chiche"
Resistance lobby. On one side of the chairs, writers and teachers who came to the Forum Promotion of Reading. The other, Edward and Chiche Duhalde, Ramón Puerta, a delegation that came to the conference "builders of society", the Archdiocesan Commission for Justice and Peace.
We looked at each distance. As if they saw us.
them flutter A few people, they take pictures. We
, feet on the coffee table, waiting for the van that will take us to the airport. Without warning, someone crosses the invisible line that separates us.
Chiche Duhalde is on the table where the writer Angela Pradelli takes his coffee.
- I stole the ashtray - says Chiche.
Pradelli just joined, feels good, looks:
- Robe, just.
The evil-minded smile.
So yes, I laughed too. I disarmed my fiction and reality built. Making us these quilombos
mental
is that we are the world ...
(I must say that as a journalist never published any of my "inference", but always interviewed, I found out, I researched and asked to be sure of the facts).
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