Rafters: careening in Boca Ciega (V)
"Come, my head's free at last! Said Alice in a tone of delight, Which changed in alarm Into Another moment, When she found her shoulders That Were Nowhere To Be Found: Could she see all, When She Looked down, Was An immense length of neck. Which Seem To rise like a stalk out of a sea of \u200b\u200bgreen Leaves That lay far bellow her "
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
" Mehr Licht! "
Goethe
was after midnight when the truck crane came to me from the beach. Came tumbling in a row of pine trees that flanked the entrance to Boca Ciega and parked two feet from where I was, sunk in the sand to the grid environment, with the frame completely covered with rotting seaweed and broken door. Oxide blisters bulging here and there and bruises caused by reefs evidenced the rapid decay of the metal and gave me a look of useless junk and finally discontinued. Several plastic parts had broken with the constant ups and downs, a drawer had been shattered - the children played with his remains now to shovel sand on the shore - and another was about to melt under the harsh sun of the tropics.
But what troubled me most was the crack I found on the bottom. There between left and right corner, there was a deep gash inflicted bungling of iron in meat by an invisible hand, during a maneuver which time I was unable to specify. As some of you may remember, I had been unconscious throughout the last stage of the failed voyage and what happened between Monday night and Wednesday morning on the beach, were three pages full of dots, the litany drunk with a fuzzy dream, an empty space that could fill - as one arm and disarm their most hated puzzle - with the vicissitudes of any wreck ...
The driver of the crane fell from the cab and went to inspect. After groping in various places and to bring down a thick chain, start the engine again and toggled. The axes of the pulleys creaked in unison imploring the compassion of a box of oil. The engine purred like a cat with a cold, while the crane phallic arrogance tiptoe to the group of swimmers that made the arena to watch the scene.
- Look, Nile, and take the elevator - cried a plump child approaching sand breaded and escorted by two other smaller and less fat ...
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was when I felt the tip of the hook to tear the flesh ...
The second pull arm that gave me the crane ripped the roof off the roots, which was spinning in the air like a boomerang, threatening to blow his head any curious to observe the maneuver at close range. - Adios, ceiling, be good, be good. And do not forget to write! This, Gerald, does not save you or the mechanic Chinese! - delirious, with the chassis too dull to experience some pain. The driver of the crane seemed disappointed with the outcome of the maneuver. Among the plans was not to get me to my grave pieces of sand.
For the next attempt needed the help of a chisel. Opened a gap on one side of the fridge and set the hook securing it with wire. The engine roared again. Roared and roared as the links are strained and curved steel arm on the weight of the contraption. The wheels of the crane were now stuck. So when you turn away to get unearthed, threw me a new rain of mud above, to completely bury underground.
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The top piece is entitled "Packaging destined for the MOMA" and was presented by Juan Suárez Blanco in Refrigerators Expo "Instructions."