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same exemplar of Apis mellifica, varies stadistically between an A of 440 cycles per second and
an E of the same octave of 330 cycles per second; the first tone corresponds to the rested bee –
at the moment to leave from the hive; the last one, to the tired bee, at the end of its working
day». I perceived prescisely those tones; I heard the sound of wings at beating clearly; the
hymenopterans were flying towards me. «The second tone that composes the characteristic
buzz, is produced by the vibration of the stigmas that guides the air to the pulmonary tracheas:
it is commonly treated that if a B of 594 cycles per second, appreciably higher pitch than the
one of the wings, but less intense». I was hearing now the buzz of a bee; the buzz of a swarm;
the buzz saturated my senses, paralyzed my body, and invaded my mind. The buzz seized from
the beats of my heart and synchronized them with its frequency! The buzz was killing me!

«The third tone, very weak, proceeds from the movement of the abdominal rings»… I’d
never end to remember the class of the Professor Jacobo Cañás. In the paroxysm of the heart
crisis, I suffered a sensation of insupportable heat, terrible, as if my body would have been
thrown all of sudden to an incandescent oven. But no; during the instant that the termic
convultion lasted, I noticed that the Fire was not outside but inside of me; which impregnated
my whole body with an aflamed liquid which was decomposed in sizzling gases. And such liquid
that was buring was my blood.

One instant lasted the calorific impulse, which shuddered me at the rhythm of the
apirian buzz, but I, naturally, believed to die: as a last agonic vision I contemplated the
Countenance of Mom, Katalina, of my cousins, and many other unkown relatives until then but
whose kinship was clear. But all the other countenances were similar to each other, not in
virtue of their genetic likeness, but for the common expression that they manifested, probably
identical the one that I had in that instant: all were agonic countenances, countenances of
human beings that were dying in the midst of a great sorrow; their expressions
reproduced the Expression of the Death. And then all ended.

Chapter III

In other words, I want to say that then concluded the phenomenon; that is, that the buzz and
the pressure upon the heart stopped. Little by little the pulse went normalizing and I could
move at will. Still stunned, I reacted and reincorporated at remembering Uncle Kurt: I feared
the worst.

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