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Chapter VI

I’d lie if I say that I didn’t wait something paranormal. My eyes were fixed in the objects
of the room, waiting to see them jump out in any moment over me.

I expected that and really I expected that any paranormal thing occur, except what really
happened: all started to move and change of position; to fall and to jump on the floor. Shelves
and furniture, all was falling and jumping steadily, while I absorbed, believed to live a
nightmare.

I delayed some seconds –precious– to comprehend that I was assisting to a seismic
movement and when, finally, I decided to take shelter, the earthquake was almost ending.

Causality? Synchronicity? The lector can believe what he wants, but he could not avoid
considering the fact that the earthquake of the January 21 of 1980 to the unique building that
damaged in irreversible form was the one that I was occupying and it had to be evacuated as I
could check reading the newspapers of that days.

There were no victims, but the building resulted inexplicably impaired on its structure,
so the municipal authorities undertook, without results, an investigation to the firm of
architects who built it. As there were no insurances, the losses were total for the proprietaries
of the Consortium, amongst them, me.

Of my goods few was what I could save because, what was enough strong to survive
seism, succumbed to the fall of the ceilings. Within them my car, which if it could be repaired
from the multiple dents, would not leave the garage in many days for being obstructed the
ramp of the entrance.

I had remained ruined all of sudden as Job. But without his famous patience.

I’ll not deny that in a first moment the desperation gained me; anyone would find it
comprehensible putting himself in my shoes. After the sinister narrated experience, with the
weight of a long night without sleeping and the charge of the previous day in which I visited
Professor Ramirez, it was necessary to more than strong to not yield and crumble. But as days
passed by, my Spirit recovered its habitual temper, and started to resolve. I rented a
Department in a nearby neighbourhood and I furnished it with the help of the sister and some
friends. The broken things, that were indispensable to replace, I acquired them with my meagre
savings.

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