This is about my employee ID. My badge, as they call it. It’s made of hard plastic, bearing the company logo, my photo, my name, and a unique number, and encoded with a magnetic code. Used to open the company’s door. Or doors. For a while, I wore it clipped to my belt, at the… Continue reading The Monday Morning Feeling
Category: Edge of Fiction
Essays & Notes
A Dream
I found in The Book of Fantasy, edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares this short text by Chuang Tzu: “The philosopher Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly, and when he woke up he said he did not know whether he was Chuang Tzu who had dreamed he was a… Continue reading A Dream
About Poets
I’ve always said poets are illiterate, but no one believed me. Otherwise, why are they always trying to invent their own language?
The Laundromat
My son told me he dreamt he was living in a laundromat. Totally unknown people would come in and do their laundry while he was sleeping or having breakfast or doing whatever.This is life, son, I told him. A big room where strangers come in, wash their dirty clothes, then leave.
I am
I am a cyclop.There is a big book written about me. It is called enCYCLOPedia.
The Hemingway Challenge
A friend poked me to take the Hemingway challenge (it is said that Ernest won once $10 on a bet of writing a story in only six words: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”). Here’s my story, but in seven: Two plates on the table; one empty. I’m now passing on the challenge. I’m waiting… Continue reading The Hemingway Challenge
A definition of silence
I have some twenty old radios, some with vacuum tubes, some with transistors, bought at the flea market. One day, I imagine arranging them along the walls of a room, its windows flung wide open to let in the noise of the city. Then I would switch them on and tune each one to a… Continue reading A definition of silence
Baldanders
Borges said: he is Baldanders and thereupon takes the forms of a man, of an oak tree, of a sow, of a fat sausage, of a field of clover, of dung, of a flower, of a blossoming branch, of a mulberry bush, of a silk tapestry, of many other things and beings, and then, once… Continue reading Baldanders