Every day I receive guests in the library where I work (as young of a certain age) whose demands I suggest that being in an open space should look both ways to discover if the spaceship that brought his world still has the hot engine due to the recent landing. So, I get to watch them and wonder, yes, with decency and softly, where the hell did you came out? weeks ago, a grandmother, her hard-working, came looking for a book of a Japanese author. My answer to that we had only a copy and was on loan was not enough. Determined not to give up so early, I took the list of literature its course and inquired if, perchance, had on our shelves some other writer, also from Japan, named Tanizaki.
"Junichiro Tanizaki ? - I asked, remembering the novelist Some prefer nettles , text edited and republished in the island. The old woman, struck her, she blurts out, "oh, you know? I, "Yes, of course (with adverbial emphasis, in a tone of yes-English-arrogant-imperialist snob-you-also
-what-should-know-it-is-a-writer-universal). Flipped a few keys, looked up the title he wanted, did not have copies in English but in Japanese. And in English in my country, I thought - National Printing Viva Cuba!
guess that reading Chinese characters must have seemed insurmountable and, disappointed, she insisted to another author Asia, this time Eileen Chang. I was meditating while writing his name in the search of the catalog. "Oh, that's not the movie? ( Lust, Caution of Ang Lee). My client, with some surprise, I said: yes, yes, the film is that I have to do an essay about it. I found one of his books and he wrote down classification.
And finally, as if missing some option in the "full service", the woman returns to the load, between hurried and uncertain: what have here will not know if any DVD movie in Chinese film maker .. . What? I ask. "This he did ... ah, how is this movie called ... Red Lantern? ". "Zhang Yimou ? - Impossible to forget the title of that film we had to simultaneously view and edit, as the projectionist of Acapulco began the roll two. "Ah, yes, the same" he replies and adds: Hey, but you know everything.
I, modest in the end, I said no, and who wish to add: for I work in a library. Although in reality and in my mind, always with the inner voice, always courteous, he was dropping that of: making!, Three, three, or three to zero, because one has to be place, so be it diplomatically in this country where once in a while featuring characters with an air of lords and ladies resulting snub unbearable.
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