07 March 2006

The Seventh Seal

I've feared since more than two weeks ago that the cell would suddenly come back to life and Home would be the word that's on the flashing tiny screen of the screeching and trembling machine. It felt more like a premonition than a perturbation, or perhaps both.

Earlier tonight they rang, he died yeaterday. Later, I called and I was told that it happened much more quickly than expected. She went back to Taipei to take care of something thinking that they still had time. They called her at the first moment when he came to claim him. They said that his pulse was getting thin at an alarming rate, nevertheless he was still there. Then she darted across the door. Then for one last time he came back to life.

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