The sea is immense, human beings minuscule, yet he, Marlborough-is at least a man who has been swallowed by a whale, anĮxtraordinary feat. Because now this man who is nothing-not Landru, not Enric Sanoi is living a moment of happiness that is quite close The sound of throbbing reaches him, continuous, monotonous, as if from a He listens,Īnd through his frogman's suit, through the density of the water, He wants to swim, but can't: his armsīump into stomach walls, concave and solid, hard as steel. The scuba-diving office worker doesn't react. He's horrified.īut when the horror begins to take over: silence. Is tossed about as if it were inside a waterfall.
Sucking noise, he doesn't have time even to turn around.
When the scuba-diving office worker hears that mysterious Thousand-millionth of a second, there's not enough time to be What can't you do in a thousand-millionth of a second? In a Him to see that he is alive it's just that his existence has been And now this thousand-millionth of a second has caused Thirty-five years shut up in a place that is neither good nor bad. Office is not a heavenly place, nor is it hell he's spent Life: rotten lie! No one was born to process insurance claims. Sometimes he tells himself that he leads a happy He's spent the last thirty-five years there, processing theįile of his own life. Insurance company-claims department-and gave up being Enric to become When he reached adulthood, for noĪpparent reason Enric abandoned his great aspirations. Marlborough, and becomes famous after he's decorated.īut that's not how it was. Or a soldier who goes to war and assassinates men, like the duke of Women, like Henri Desire Landru, and been famous before he was executed. Have been a murderer who pops up in a marketplace and assassinates Or he could have invented the H2Ītomic bomb that exterminates children as if they were beetles. He could have invented the H1 ecological lightbulb that protectsīutterflies as if they were children. When he was a young boy of promise, Enric aspired to great things. One of the great artists of human mediocrity, as a matter ofįact. Mediterranean, he realizes that he's been devoting his time to Have a revelation: as Enric Sanoi swims beneath the waters of the
In a thousand-millionth of a second, you can Thousand-millionth of a second, you can recapture a memory. What can you accomplish in a thousand-millionth of a second? In a Between Heaven and Hell." Retrieved from
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