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viernes, julio 08, 2005

Diálogos (sudden attack)


Todo a este lado son diálogos: diálogos nuevos, diálogos imaginarios, diálogos que me encantaría tener, reconstrucciones de diálogos antiguos, correcciones de diálogos indeseados; diálogos con Aizun, diálogos con mi cerebro (¿te gusta cómo está quedando? La verdad, no mucho ¿Realmente es esto lo que quieres decir? Pues la verdad es que no lo sé), diálogos con personas que no conozco, diálogos con personas que me gustaría conocer, diálogos con personas que me gustaría eliminar; diálogos imaginarios con (y entre) personajes que surgen a través de diálogos; diálogos construidos a partir de frases robadas de otros diálogos, propios o ajenos.

Diálogos que son la esencia y se construyen a partir de una simple palabra, una idea ínfima que nadie percibe (sólo los constructores de diálogos; diálogos de uno, monólogos de dos), tomando prestada una secuencia aparentemente corriente pero que provoca la necesidad de experimentar ese diálogo* y que, como todo a este lado (en cursiva) será objeto de algún diálogo futuro.

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*Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:

- My honoured lord!

- My dear fellow!

- How are you?

- Afflicted!

- Really? In what way?

- Transformed.

- Inside or out?

- Both.

- I see. Not much new there.

- Go into details. Delve. Probe the background, establish the situation.

- So---so your uncle is the king of Denmark?!

- And my father before him.

- His father before him?

- No, my father before him.

- But surely---

- You might well ask.

- Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king.

- Yes.

- Unorthodox.

- Undid me.

- Undeniable. Where were you?

- In Germany.

- Usurpation, then.

- He slipped in.

- Which reminds me.

- Well, it would.

- I don't want to be personal.

- It's common knowledge.

- Your mother's marriage.

- He slipped in.

- His body was still warm.

- So was hers.

- Extraordinary.

- Indecent.

- Hasty.

- Suspicious.

- It makes you think.

- Don't think I haven't thought of it.

- And with her husband's brother.

- They were close.

- She went to him

- Too close----

- for comfort.

- It looks bad.

- It adds up.

- Incest to adultery.


- Would you go so far?

- Never.