My Mother-in-Law Drinks by Diego De Silva

Author:Diego De Silva
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Europa
Published: 2014-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

AN INTENSIVE PROFESSIONAL REFRESHER COURSE

Mulder and Scully’s reinforcements arrived a while ago, and from outside you can hear the confused sounds of cars and the voices of people talking over each other, repeatedly telling the spectators to “stay back” because “there’s nothing to see here.”

They seem to be tremendously busy out there, even though the monitors keep feeding us the same images, more or less, and the sensation that I’m starting to feel as I realize that I’m now inextricably a cast member of this reality show of sorts with a condemned man awaiting execution is embarrassingly familiar: could it be, I ask myself, that we’ve run through the entire bank of narrative canons available?

At a certain point I think I hear a helicopter coming closer but I couldn’t be sure: that too might be just another one of the imagination’s ready-made dishes.

Every so often a siren wails, I wonder why they turn it on, by now the building must be surrounded and I can’t imagine there’s still any need to warn anyone at this point. Maybe it’s a way of continuing to attract rubberneckers so the cops can tell them to stay back because there’s nothing to see here.

The carabinieri have cordoned off the space in front of the supermarket with their squad cars, but the hyenas have refused to give up their positions and continue to watch over the scene of the so-called trial, although they have been forced to move back, maintaining a safe distance roughly equivalent to that between the audience and the stage at a rock concert. Ever since Engineer Romolo Sesti Orfeo revealed Matrix’s identity and announced the reason he’d taken him hostage they’d gathered in a silence that seemed suspiciously like the rumblings of imminent revolt. In all likelihood a faction is being formed to root for the wrong side, and I believe that Mulder and Scully also foresee this same outcome because they look increasingly on edge, and for that matter this would not be the first time that police and carabinieri were attacked by the very people they’re supposed to protect.

Not long ago RAI TV also showed up, in the person of a formerly hot female journalist, her hair carefully tousled and unkempt, and as soon as she stepped out of the news truck she immediately interviewed Mulder, who told her nothing more than the bare necessities, summarizing facts of which she was certainly already aware, only to beg off, saying: “Now please let us do our job,” after which she attempted to talk to Engineer Romolo Sesti Orfeo in, as they say, real time, but he caught her off guard and explained to her that all he was willing to give her was permission to place her video cameras facing in the direction of the monitors and to broadcast live, otherwise she and her entire news crew could leave. After all, the video up to that point had already been saved to the computer, and that’s not all: a local

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