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Mister Valéry |
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| Gonçalo M. Tavares |
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Illustrations by Rachel Caiano
Translated by Roopanjali Roy |
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ISBN 81-89420-00-3
2005 • 80 pages • paperback
€ 8.50 | Rs. 200 |
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| Excerpt: |
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| The Inside of Things |
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For several years, Mister Valéry earned a living by selling the inside of things.
Mister Valéry did not sell the object so to speak, but only the inside of the object. The buyer would take a dish, for example, but in truth he only owned the inside of the dish. |
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| Problems, however, arose when the owner of the inside of something happened to meet the owner of the outside of the same object. |
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| Heated arguments took place on such occasions. |
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| In truth, both buyers could never be content, unless they lived in the same house. |
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| However, such coincidences do not happen very often in life. And that explains why Mister Valéry’s business never really took off the ground. |
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| They accused him of being a swindler, but Mister Valéry was merely someone who thought a lot. |
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