Optimist For Sale Ontario

By Bernardo Reyes (6/nov/2010)
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This happened south of Trapananda, before the country fell into oblivion, and the vague account of his existence out just remembered names sheepdogs baptized by carriers drunk or numb.

And oddly enough, there was a mine, and it trapped miners, but that language did not exist in the word mine, but the appetite for a huge quantity of onyx stones placed in the bottom of frightening twists and turns, perfectly polished and sharpened by sea water.
put it in a word, it was greed that drove these men to go into in mazes dark, damp, until after a complaint of bones, the mountain collapsed.
For years, relatives lit bonfires by the sea, night after night, reminding those who never returned from the depths of the earth.
All had received the pelvis rocky talking to his dying voice of rock and resentful over the years and moisture. Stalactites are collapsing for no apparent reason and bats had migrated en masse. Only old wolf came to die Marine fatally wounded by the teeth of killer whales, or whales sighted, high tides that confused the tunnel entrance with the entrance to a shelter which would not leave. However, no one said simply, first life, then onyx.
So he mines, passing from one side to another, had it tattooed on their shadows, a curse.

The war for survival, or against rival tribes, made the membership of these stones were the most precious commodity in these latitudes: to hunt seals gilts tender, and not enough the club must, to defend against aggression, not enough the melee.
was founded fear that the gap opening between humans and could be covered in the few seconds that an arrow is delayed accurate in ending the dispute.
And then there was greed that allowed by using such thin, silent and deadly arrows, could accumulate more meat rheas, guanacos, or that they could eat.

emerged over the years other interpretations for these mythical mines and those early years. Perhaps the most crazy was that the tunnels led to the bottom of the earth, and that the land opposite, a reverse gravity, they developed a splendid life, reverse sun, birds singing in reverse, with Love converse. Miguel Serrano
places the arrival of submarines Nazis in these cryptic geographies, where Hitler would have come himself, surviving bullets of contempt and worldwide.

But what was the impregnable Trapananda mines, which accounts believe more than the usual platitudes of anthropologists and historians, who often tempted to name the unnamable, and southern and regionalize the myth, instead of seeing the archetype universal where the struggle is based foundation to establish the dominance of one over the other?
Almost nothing.

can only say that wisps of ancient fires continue to illuminate the faces of the new offenders and victims, who go up and away a coven of ghostly light and shadow fighting to establish domination.
And next to them, indeed, renewed garments of heroism and usury.