10th July 2011 The Only Reader - My Short Fiction Story

I attended a funeral of a friend who was (is) a great writer. Good writers don't stop being one because of a minor cause like death.  Dying is a circumstance that doesn't affect the literature, because literature, is really but dialogue with the dead.

 

Like most funerals his contained eulogies, but sincerely felt, and which ended with a text of his read out by an editor and close friend. It was an introduction posthumous of a log book of engagements, a clamour in favour of life and books.

 

In this final farewell there were the immediate family members, friends, reporters and also a solitary man, an anonymous stranger. I found him at the exit. We exchanged a brief nod and a sad smile and he said to me: ' I didn't know him at all, only his books. I came because I was his utterly devoted and ecstatic reader. It seemed to me I should be here today.'

 

A reader. A single reader, the world is born again.

 

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10th July 2011 News Tip-Bits This Week

* A man is in prison for not having shown up in court as summoned for being in prison, for not showing up in another court case. - El Mundo

~ I had to read it a 2nd time too.

 

* A mare destroyed a man's face when he tried to abuse her sexually. - elameria.es

~ Serves him right.

 

* A man's arm was amputated in a kitchen accident; the police put his extremity in a casserole to the hospital. -El Mundo 

~ Hope it doesn't end up in the kitchen of the hospital.

 

* Mariah Carey might be quite sane, but she had to take her dogs to the psychiatrist. - ABC

~ I think she might as well check herself out seeing she is there already.

 

* A 50 years old mother, addicted to esthetic surgery herself, gave breast implant to her daughter as her 7th birthday present. The little girl was said to be delighted. - Lasextanoticias.com

~ The mother definitely needs to see a psychiatrist. The poor girl might develop totally unrealistic outlook on life and suffer from it through no fault of her own.

 

* A worried citizen obliged the Leicester Town Hall (England) to admit not ready for the attack of Zombis. - Bbc.co.UK

~ Is the world going mad?

 

* A woman suffers cataplexy (sleep paralysis). If she laughs, she falls asleep. - Meneame.net

~ Sure complicates life!

 

* A catholic school prohibits the use of the word Rainbow, considering it as symbol of Gay Pride. - ABC

~ Yes, the world is Mad.

 

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