Capitolo 11
the park as roar of waters against the alone island of mean-ocean.
Approximately eleven that morning, one of these benches put where
stone is steepest and trees of forest they sustain together closing and grapevines I am
you classify with shade a small individual that sociable-looks at some ten game,
well-stricken years are sat for the time being without a companion. Him
you/he/she had thrown on the bench close to him his/her it was sun-grown weak, it was rain-grown weak,
shapeless beret, discovering many bronze hair; and as if from this
simple action he had clarified the way for business, him push one
hand that able-looks deep in one of his/her pockets. The fingers closed
on what they founded there, as the sweaters of a net of deep-sea filled
with his/her taking, and you/he/she was slowly attracted to the surface. The taking
it consisted of one-cent and pieces of five-cent, while representing the sales of
its morning carpets. He counted the coins one to the time ended in the palm
of the other hand that then dams on the total one as another net,
and it allowed to fall again the treasure in the deep sea of the other pocket.
Its absorption in this trial had been intense; his/her satisfaction with
the result was complete. Perhaps after every action of succeeded embankment
there happens in man's mind, spender and miser, a momentary
you cradle of energy, some kind of brief _Pax vobiscum_ my soul and my stomach,
my twins masters of need and the avarice! And possibly, as it deposited the young fellow
his/her earningses, he was old enough to digitize a small way in this adult
and the despicable joy. Both this as it is able, he was not the next instant on
again and busy. He taken on his/her beret, didn't let him/it fall on his/her head but on
one of his/her worn-out knees; planted a strong hand on the other and it
strong hand on the other knee; and with his/her strong legs that swing under
the bench, toe that kicks heel and heel that kick toe that he has shortly remained
from the battle of the life.