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viernes, 18 de febrero de 2011

AFTER DARK.

I finish reading yesterday after dark and is the profile of a big city. In the bigger picture, the city looks like a gigantic living being. Or set a host of intertwined corpuscles. Innumerable blood vessels extend to every corner of the body impossible to define, carry blood, tirelessly renewed cells. Send new information and old information removed. Send new consumer and remove old consumer. Send new contradictions and inconsistencies removed old. At the rate of heart beats flashes throughout the body, swollen with fever, boils. Midnight is approaching and, after passing the peak of activity, basal metabolism is, without wavering, to keep the body alive. His is the buzz that gives the city a low sustained. A buzz without vicissitudes, monotonous, yet full of foreboding. Our eyes pick an area where light is concentrated, focused that point. Began to descend slowly towards it. A sea of neon lights of different colors. It's what they call an entertainment district. The huge digital screens installed on the walls of the buildings have fallen silent when approaching midnight, but the speakers of the building entrances are vomiting undeterred hip-hop 'overly serious tones. Big crowded arcades of youth. Loud electronic sounds. Groups of university students returning from a party. Teens with bleached blond hair and sturdy legs sticking out below the skirt. Office running suits that cross the intersection in order not to miss the last train. Even now, the claims of karaoke are inviting
happily enter. Wagon model car black and strikingly decorated the streets runs slowly as if taking inventory. He wears a black film adhered to the glass. It looks like a creature, with special organs and skin, which inhabits the ...

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