IV

Sunday afternoon, same spot, same time.

I always have usual places: same café, same bar, etc.

I like to go to this places and order the usual thing.

The Sunday afternoon spot is called Cafe De Jassir, I sit in the terrace, in a table where I´m able to observe the entire site. I always take a cappuccino and a water bottle. And the first thing that I do when I sit in the table is put my cigarettes in there, so the people who are bothered by smoke see them and do no sit close.

It´s 16:33.

I´ve been looking all day for a story that I read yesterday in The Book of Sand but I can´t find it. In the story a barbaric king discovers that his brother wife it´s cuckolding him, later he finds out that his wife is worse. They both execute their women, and both of them disappointed of life decide to go in a “road trip”. After days of riding their whatever —I not remember the name of the animal, is not a horse neither a camel— they find a clear, a oasis, and they stop to rest. In that place they met a magical being, a sort of genie or ifrit that captures them. Them the woman of the genie releases them with the condition that they sleep with her. Afterwards already in his home the king think that if one of the most powerful creature on the land is a cuckold they have nothing to worry about, because there it`s nothing that they could do.

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I want to read that story again but I’m unable to find it. It´s really interesting how the author shows the powerless of this men (Included the ifrit), that are supposed to be the embodiment of power but they can control their wifes. It remembers me a Napoleon, the greatest man of his time and also a cuckold.

I get tired and close the book. I pass the hand and touch the engraving and say to myself “Toth, supposed god of the arts of magic, inventor of writing, in charge of the judgment of dead and arbiter of godly disputes… I think I like it” Then I realize that I have not marked the book, I take my pen and write in the first page:

A. Bird.

02/Dic/2017

I close the book again and decide to go to the movies. I take the usual way, I have time to have a beer before the movie, I hope there is something good. A block before the cinema I´m crossing the street and on the other side I see this girl walking, beautiful, black blouse, green floral skirt, short hair. Then, I get hit by a truck.

Spoiler: Spoiler

 A. Bird is dead

The contract with Toth goes into effect.