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Manual
Julio Cortázar
INSTRUCTIONS TO MOURN
Instructions to mourn. Leaving aside the reasons, let us stick to the proper way to mourn, meant as a cry that is not allowed into the scandal, or that insults the smile with its parallel and awkward resemblance. Crying average, everyday is a general contraction of the face and a spasmodic sound accompanied by tears and mucus, the latter in the end, since the cry ends at the moment when one blows strongly. To mourn, steer the imagination toward yourself, and if this It is impossible to have contracted the habit of believing in the outside world, think of a duck covered with ants or of those gulfs in the Strait of Magellan into which does not fit anyone, ever. Coming to the weeping itself, cover the face decorously, using both hands, palms inward. Children cry with the sleeve pressed against the face, preferably in a corner of the room. Average duration of crying, three minutes.
-SAMPLE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO BE AFRAID
In a village Scotland sell books with a blank page lost somewhere in the volume. If a reader that page leads to three in the afternoon, dies. In Plaza del Quirinale in Rome, a point that insiders knew until the nineteenth century, and from which, under the full moon is slowly moving
see the statues of the Dioscuri who struggle with their rearing horses.
in Amalfi, at the end of the coastal zone, there is a boardwalk that goes into the sea and night. You hear a dog bark beyond the last streetlight.
A man is spreading toothpaste on the brush. Suddenly you see, lying on her back, a tiny image woman, coral or perhaps painted bread crumbs.
When you open the closet to get a shirt, drop an old calendar that breaks down, drops its leaves covers linen soiled with thousands of paper butterflies.
We know a salesman who started hurting her left wrist, just below the watch. By pulling the clock, jumped the blood, the wound showed traces of very fine teeth.
The doctor finishes examining and reassures us. His deep voice and friendly precedes prescription drugs as now written, sitting at his desk. Occasionally lifts his head and smiles, encouraging. Care is not in a week we'll be fine. We sprawled on our couch, happy, and casually looked around. Suddenly in the darkness under the table
see the legs of a doctor. Pants has been uploaded to the thighs, and has average woman.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CLIMB A LADDER
Nobody will no longer see the floor often is folded so that one hand goes up at right angles to the ground plane, then the another is placed parallel to this plane, to make way for a new perpendicular which is repeated in a spiral or a broken line to highly variable elevations. Stooping and putting his left hand in a party
vertical and horizontal right into question, is in possession of a momentary step or rung. Each of these steps, formed as shown by two elements, stood a little above and below the previous process, which gives meaning to the staircase, while any other combination may produce forms most beautiful and picturesque, but unable moved from the ground floor to the first floor.
a stairway from the front, then back or side are particularly uncomfortable. The natural attitude is standing, arms hanging easily, head erect but not so much that the eyes no longer see the steps immediately above that step, and breathing slowly and regularly. To climb a ladder
starts lifting that part of the body located on the right below, usually encased in leather or suede, and that exceptions should be exactly in step. Posted on the first step that party, which call for short walk, collect the equivalent of the left (also called walking, but not to be confused with the aforementioned foot), and taking it to the height of the foot, you continue until it is done in the second step, thus in the foot will rest, and rest on the first foot. (The first steps are always the most difficult to acquire the necessary coordination. The coincidence of name between the foot and the foot makes it difficult to explain. Be especially careful not to lift while foot and foot).
Arrived in this way a second step, simply repeat the movements alternately until one reaches the top of the stairs. It comes out of it easily, with a light tap of the heel to fix in place, which will not move until the time of descent.
