Selected Cronicas

ANGUISHED PROTECTION

She could not bear to look at her father when he was happy. For at such moments, this strong, embittered man would become entirely innocent. And so defenceless. Oh God, how he would forget he was mortal. And oblige her, a mere child, to cope with the heavy responsibility of knowing that even our most innocent animal pleasures die. At such moments when he forgot he was going to die, her father transformed her into the Pieta, the mother of man.