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Claude Monet. Fields of Bezons. c.1873. Oil on canvas. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. |
The sunlight flooding a sea made of grass, flowers, colors. The waves of that sea swinging in the breeze that blows from the east. The smell of the wind caresses the petals and smiles. Laughter Argentinian rolling on the lawn. A man and a woman over there, lying among a multitude of flowers, hugging, looking at the games of the clouds in the blue. Light, happy, oblivious of time. Hand in hand. A child chases her cat in the grass. Then he is distracted by a flock of birds flight, while the puppy chasing butterflies dream.
A noise imperceptible at first, then gradually more powerful creeps into the picture. A crackling sound, like an intense and prolonged creak. S'offusca the sky, the sun seems to weaken the intensity of its rays. The colors begin to fade. Drip away, as it melts. A soft meow and then the noise. The child disappears. The man disappears in a gust of wind. No meow.
The woman remains on the lawn. with sad eyes. clutching pieces of paper between her fingers moist. He closes his eyes. He knows what is going on, but still wants to keep the image within.
Then he raises. Opens his eyes. The rattling ceased. Tap the walls of the room. Pull down the wall those strips of colored paper, colored decomposed. And he realizes that there is no grass nor a man nor a child and even a cat. There are only walls between herself and life. The sun is a lamp that is going round in short.
Then he raises. Opens his eyes. The rattling ceased. Tap the walls of the room. Pull down the wall those strips of colored paper, colored decomposed. And he realizes that there is no grass nor a man nor a child and even a cat. There are only walls between herself and life. The sun is a lamp that is going round in short.
Then the dark. And the silence.
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