Bogotá 39 by Various

Author:Various [Various]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LATINAMERICA, UPLOADFILE24, NEWWRITERS, TRANSLATION, ULAPRIL2024, SHORTSTORIES
ISBN: 9781786073341
Google: 3B69DwAAQBAJ
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Goodreads: 48673819
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

For breakfast – 10.41 – there are eggs Benedict with lots of mayonnaise. The Sevillian stewardess wakes me and I wake my husband. I’m excited by the coincidence. He doesn’t notice it. He smiles at me – yawns – vigorously kneads his eyes with his wrists. We eat.

Why are you called Tachi? asks Hans, his mouth full of Benedicts. 10.43 – the hour of cruel questions.

Who’s going to meet you at the airport? my husband asks me.

I’ll take a taxi, I reply. And you?

A friend’s picking me up. If you want, I’ll call you on Sunday and we’ll organize it so that you don’t have to be there when I come to get my things on Monday.

Whatever, I say.

It’s a nickname, says Tachi.

But how did you get it? insists Hans.

Too much mayonnaise! she interrupts. They agree on this.

Just because, says Tachi. My name’s Ignacio, but my little sister used to call me that when we were kids.

Ulpianus indicates that three conditions have to be fulfilled for a marriage to be considered legitimate: proof of fitness to marry; that the man has reached puberty and the woman is of an age to have sexual relations; the consent of both parties.

11.03. The Sevillian woman and a male flight attendant collect the trays.

11.17. The Sevillian woman collects the earphones, which no one has used. I pretend to have lost mine – I’ve put them in my pocket – in case they come in useful.

11.22. The descent begins.

11.30. Tachi doesn’t want to sit in the middle block for the landing. It frightens him – he doesn’t like it, he insists. Hans offers to change back. The city had dawned cloudy and wet, so the view from the air wouldn’t be much to talk about anyway.

11.45. Tachi and my husband look out of the window in silence – the city blanketed in thick – milky – clouds.

The aircraft descends – touches down – bounces slightly – comes to earth again – moves forward – gradually brakes – and comes to a complete halt.

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