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The Down Pillow

por : Freelance    

Autor : Horacio Quiroga
The honeymoon Alice and Jordan was not everything she had wished; proved to be a long chill. They married in April and for
three months, lived a special that while he always loved her deeply but silently, so sparse and austere, she loved him in a trembling and even impatient, especially when returning home after walk almost every night, and perceived to Jordan too quiet, noticing absent. Alice spent her time at home and eternally cool autumn, which helped greatly to add discomforts and misfortunes that feeling of disgust complacent. So he spent his long days, having shattered his inscrutable romantic childhood dreams, content to just wait for her husband to return. . Some nights I waited up, although almost always overcame her sleep she fell asleep curled up on a chair in the middle of the house that always seemed hostile. " Alice " notes the author would have liked more leniently under the blue sky " ; so strictly eventually suffocate poor Alice. An overwhelming sense of unhappiness was seizing women. It was strange to begin losing weight. Suffered a mild attack of influenza that treacherous, was extended indefinitely. Only the first few days was kept up until a rapid weakness led her to bed forever, until the last day. He began hallucinating and shaking, and despite unnecessary visits to doctors, inevitably bled without explanation. During the day the disease progressed, but by night life was slipping through countless waves of blood. From the third day Alicia crumbled beyond repair. With great difficulty, if he could move his head, not wanting to make the bed, much less the feather pillow. His terrors advanced as freaks who went up to the bed and hurriedly climbed for the blanket. It was not long until it enters in a state of torpor, from which he never recovered. The final two days raved incessantly babbling intelligible, Alicia finally died. The maid then entered to undo the bed, and one already in the room, looked a little surprised the cushion. Decided to take a look for something in calling attention he finished, he found blood stains that were similar to bites. Jordan called the maid quietly. This came quickly and was doubled in turn. Indeed, on the cover, on both sides of the gap left Alicia's head, were small dark spots. At the request of Jordan raised the maid to light the pillow but immediately dropped it:; weighed surprising. Sorry man, as he lifted had the same feeling. On the dining table, hand-torn Jordan and bottom of the cushion cover one Tajadura; once the feathers flew, on the merits of an animal found atrocious pad, a sticky ball alive, so deformed that one can hardly let him see the mouth. Every night, every night, the beast had applied its snout to the brow of the woman sucking the blood until it was bloodless. Five nights was enough for the beast to end the life of Alice, emptying it completely. The bite was almost imperceptible. With daily have removed the cushion would have prevented its devastating development, but from the moment she could not move, the suction was dizzying. In five nights, Alicia had emptied completely. <<The parasites of birds, "the author-minute appointment in the usual means, come to acquire enormous proportions under certain conditions. Human blood seems to be particularly favorable, and it is not uncommon to find them in the down pillows>>. But when the disease struck the unfortunate woman, found her limp and no desire to continue living, and ended up admitting defeat to Alicia persisted not allow him even once rearranged the pillow of feathers as if he sensed God knows that this uncomfortable situation so that inevitably end up taking her to certain death, and after so many dashed dreams and accomplishments cracked, that's what finally chosen 
Publicado el: septiembre 02, 2009
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