Nocilla Lab by Agustín Fernández Mallo

Nocilla Lab by Agustín Fernández Mallo

Author:Agustín Fernández Mallo [Mallo, Agustín Fernández]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910695289
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published: 2019-06-15T04:00:00+00:00


II

AUTOMATIC ENGINE

1.

‘I’ll always have a clear memory of it because it happened so simply and without fuss.’

(‘House Taken Over’ by Julio Cortázar, tr. Paul Blackburn)

I hope I haven’t wasted this quotation by using it now.

2.

Then we woke up.

She smiled.

We got out of the car and stood leaning against the bonnet. Eating the last of our supplies – half a packet of biscuits, 3 peaches and the water – we decided that the prison sign was deterrent enough. We wouldn’t go on.

The sun was low and the long shadow of the car met ours out across the vast scrubland. I saw in this projection, in this combination of our shadows and that of the car, a cat’s head. We wondered what our cat might have been doing in that moment.



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