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That afternoon the journalist did not bring the article to him. The next morning nurse Larquier entered his room waving the paper in her hand. “ Look what I’m bringing you. It occupies a whole page. You’ll have to celebrate it with champagne; but not with the blonde. ” Nervously Maceira glanced over his statements. ” He lamented having gone against his own interests, and he came to ask himself if he shouldn’t admit to them that they were right, that he had acted foolishly, prejudicing his own case, because he was going to marry Chantal.
I abandoned forever this sarcastic litany the night I saw him at The Smart Theater, co-starring with Paulina Singerman in The Big Parade, a stage adaptation of King Vidor’s old film. During the play I also forgot about the review I was supposed to write for my paper, and even my own presence in the theater. Or rather I thought that, along with the heroes in The Big Parade, I was in the muddy trenches somewhere in France, listen ing to the bullets of the First World War whizz by. Some time later I gave up journalism and got a job in the country, which I was felt to be suited for, because of 48 ♦ A D O L F O B IO Y CASARES my family background.
Not snakes: boas. Not to be surpassed by the others he tried to move ahead, but distrust must have paralyzed him, because he didn’t take a single step. When he told me this, Maceira said: “ People can say what they want about Kid Maceira, but not that he’s a coward. ” When he was finally going to make a move, two yel lowish blue lights appeared in the upper half of the mouth of the tunnel. He thought they were fog head lights. Oval-shaped lights, like the eyes of an enormous cat. He suddenly noticed, not without concern, that the lights moved, advanced, very slowly.
