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La casa Rosa de la esquina Bustamante #2

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22 February 2006 2 Min Read

No conoces la ciudad hasta que conozcas sus fantasmas; es entonces cuando la ciudad te hace sentir las esquinas, las sombras, lo recóndito de su alma. Ojos que ven, corazón que conoce.

Las calles lucí­an las hojas del viejo árbol como si el rojo fuera muy de moda. No para mis sentimientos. Un decrépito color les hubiere sentado mejor, lo marchitado, marrón. Lo fragil, lo leve, lo que el viento se lleva con sí­ para estrellarlo contra alguna pared ad infinitum 24hrs. Hasta que poco a poco terminase en pedazos por todo el vecindario. Una hoja de árbol regada en mil trozos sin poder dar cuenta de ello. Otro dí­a traerá consí­ los resultados del revuelo fatal.

Mis pasos pisaban las hojas sin mayor detenimiento. Iba rumbo a la casa Rosa bajo la pesadumbre de una mala noticia que afectarí­a mi futuro inmediato.

Esa casa siempre me trae recuerdos de las lecturas que hice de las novelas de Isabel Allende como si uno pidiera comida china a domicilio, rica, humeante y en cartones con un cookie fortune de pilón.

En la casa Rosa hay una vasija que dan ganas de quebrarla, cada que paso por ahí­ algo me insinúa a hacerlo, controlo el impulso pero no sin pensar dos veces el por qué de la travesura que me acosa cada vez que paso de largo por ella.

Esa fue la última vez que me vi tentado a hacerle daño a la vasija portuguesa y la última vez que puse un pie en la casa Rosa.1

1 Chinese readers are used to being asked to infer certain points on their own … with only a little help from the author. Shen explains that this technique, included in both creative writing and criticism, is known as “yijing.” Shen defines yijing as “the process of creating a pictorial environment while reading a piece of literature” (537). Yijing is meant to keep the reader active in the story by forcing the reader to decide what the author had in mind while writing the story. The reader has to develop the picture described by the author.”

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